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grammar question: my wife gives me "pressure/stress"?
Hello,
Can you say someone or something gives you pressure or stress? I'm I using the words "pressure" and "stress" correctly in the following sentences and are they gramatically correct?
1. My wife gives me pressure.
2. My boss gives me pressure, he always says I must work harder.
3. My wife gives me stress.
4. My boss gives me stress becuase he is always yelling at me.
5. My job gives me pressure.
6. My job gives me stress.
3 Answers
- MJ #1 FanLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I would use the word "cause" or "causes" instead of "gives me".
- Richard MLv 71 decade ago
Grammatically, they are all correct but they don't mean what you want.
The only one that conveys the right meaning is number 6.
1. My wife gives me pressure.
My wife is pressuring me. My wife is putting a lot of pressure on me.
2. My boss gives me pressure, he always says I must work harder.
MY boss is always pressuring me to work harder.
3. My wife gives me stress.
My wife is stressing me out.
4. My boss gives me stress becuase he is always yelling at me.
My boss is stressing me out because he is always yelling at me.
5. My job gives me pressure.
I feel the pressure from my job
6. My job gives me stress.
ok
My job is stressing me out.
The person who said that is not a nice thing to say about your wife is living in a fantasy world. All wives stress out their husbands.
- 1 decade ago
Yeah, all of them are using the correct form of grammar.
Though that is quite a mean thing to say about your wife.
