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What is the correct grammar i am stress or i am stressed?
I am stressed. In the sentence the speaker is descrbing his emotional state. You would not say"I am a stress person." You would need the participial form "stressed". States of… emotion are nominative: happiness, stress, depression, anxiousness, listlessness, nervousness, cheerfulness, remorse, guilt, forgiveness Many can be used as verbs, which have participial forms. Ex: He stresses me. He depresses me. He forgives me. He cheers me. If the speaker says ,"I am stress," the implication is that the speaker is personifying the abstract noun, much like saying, "I am death." Just as one would describe a dead person with a modifier form, not death, the correct form would be a stressed person, not stress. A native speaker would always make this distinction. (MORE)
