Grammar question please help?

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do you say tirer or more tired? considering the approach that tire is a one syllable word and that considerign that it's supposed not to use more before it. thank you for your answer

Answer 1

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Tirer is not a word.
More tired is correct.

Tired is a past participle, not an adjective, so you have to use "more" with it and not add -er. Similarly, loved is more loved and not loveder and bored is more bored and not boreder.

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Answer 2

Um, no it's more tired. You see, if you say tirer, it wouldn't really make sense; due to the fact that people in older times used to say things more fluently and decently.

So, it is more tired.

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Answer 3

I am trying to think back to when I took English grammar in the 10th grade. Ha! no luck. I am thinking that tired is some kind of verbal, perhaps a participle... a verb used as an adjective... And I am wondering if there is something in common with such usage ... words, you know. The only other participed that comes to mind is "juiced." "condemned" perhaps works the same way? Would a murderer be more condemned than a thief (NO, wait "condemned" is breaking the syllable rule?) Ah "sliced?" Could bread be more sliced than this?