【Exercise】

Vocabulary

Match the two words to make common collocations:将下列词语排列，组成一个常用的短语

Office Marriage Night Schedule Out

1 Civil

2 Behind

3 Stressed

4 Registry

5 Opening

Grammar

Stressed and stressed out are nearly always interchangeable, when it means nervous or worried. Stressed out is a more informal and modern alternative: 用out填空，有些空不需要填

Susan is really stressed about her final examination.

Susan is really stressed out about her final examination.

However with the construction "to stress someone out" we have to use the preposition "out":

Jack has been really stressing me out recently. He is always criticizing my work.

Exercise:

Put “out”, after stress, in the following sentences if possible:

1 When you read the poem remember to stress ______ the rhyming words.

2 Peter looks so stressed ______ he needs a holiday.

3 The metal on this machine has been stressed ______ by continual use.

4 Susan is really hard work. She always stresses me ______ whenever I see her.