Grammar for Describing When We Are Not Feeling Well

2023-04-28

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  • Imagine you are feeling sick, and you need to go to the doctor.
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  • Your throat might hurt or you might have a high temperature.
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  • What do you say? How do you describe how you are feeling?
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  • In Today's Everyday Grammar, we will learn how to describe sickness and how to talk about our symptoms.
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  • When you go to the doctor, it is important to describe what you are feeling.
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  • The doctor or nurse might ask you: "How do you feel?"
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  • You can answer with the verb "to feel" plus an adjective to describe the feeling.
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  • I feel good, healthy, amazing.
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  • He feels bad, awful, terrible.
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  • Nancy felt sick. They feel ill.
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  • I feel weak and dizzy.
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  • We can use "not" with the adjective "well" to also say that we do not feel good.
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  • I do not feel well today.
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  • While "well" is most commonly used to describe health, "good" is also used informally.
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  • A: Are you feeling under the weather today?
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  • B: No, I'm good.
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  • When we go to the doctor's office, the doctor will ask about our symptoms.
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  • We can describe our symptoms by talking about the affected body part plus the verb "be" and an adjective.
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  • My eyes are red and itchy.
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  • Jannie's throat is sore.
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  • His finger is swollen.
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  • We can also name the affected body part and combine it with verbs like "hurt" and "ache."
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  • "To ache" means to have dull pain for a long time.
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  • My body aches.
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  • My back hurts.
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  • Another way to express symptoms is to use a personal pronoun like "I" as the subject and "have" with the illness or symptom.
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  • I have a stomachache.
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  • Her daughter has an ear infection.
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  • She had had a sore throat all weekend.
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  • You have a fever.
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  • Note that "to have a stomachache" can have several meanings.
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  • The first could be that you are experiencing a dull pain in your stomach.
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  • The second is that you feel nauseous.
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  • The third meaning is that you could have painful gas.
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  • We can also use a descriptive verb to say the action that has occurred on or to a part of the body.
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  • Verbs like "hurt," "cut," "scraped" and "injured" are used with personal pronouns as subjects and the affected part of the body as the direct object.
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  • Direct objects receive the action from the verb.
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  • Subject + specific verb (cut, hurt, scrape) + body part.
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  • I cut my finger.
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  • Ashley bruised her knee.
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  • We can add more information to the sentence in the form of adverbs and conjunctions.
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  • I cut my finger yesterday while making dinner.
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  • Larissa hurt her back when moving boxes last weekend.
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  • In today's Everyday Grammar, we learned some common ways to express how we are feeling and our symptoms to a health care professional.
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  • We learned about sentence structures with the verbs "feel," "have" and descriptive verbs like "cut" and "hurt."
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  • We also talked about linking parts of the body to symptoms we are feeling using the verb "be."
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  • Now it is your turn. Here is some homework to practice.
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  • Write a few sentences based on today's story.
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  • Write one sentence with the verb "feel."
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  • Write about part of your body and a symptom it has.
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  • Make a sentence using either the verb "to have" or a descriptive verb and a body part.
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  • Are there any other expressions you know for talking about your symptoms and how you are feeling?
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  • Write to us in the comments. Or send your homework to learningenglish@voanews.com.
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  • I'm Faith Pirlo.
  • 1
  • Imagine you are feeling sick, and you need to go to the doctor. Your throat might hurt or you might have a high temperature. What do you say? How do you describe how you are feeling?
  • 2
  • In Today's Everyday Grammar, we will learn how to describe sickness and how to talk about our symptoms.
  • 3
  • Feel
  • 4
  • When you go to the doctor, it is important to describe what you are feeling. The doctor or nurse might ask you: "How do you feel?"
  • 5
  • You can answer with the verb "to feel" plus an adjective to describe the feeling.
  • 6
  • I feel good, healthy, amazing.
  • 7
  • He feels bad, awful, terrible.
  • 8
  • Nancy felt sick. They feel ill.
  • 9
  • I feel weak and dizzy.
  • 10
  • We can use "not" with the adjective "well" to also say that we do not feel good.
  • 11
  • I do not feel well today.
  • 12
  • While "well" is most commonly used to describe health, "good" is also used informally.
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  • A: Are you feeling under the weather today?
  • 14
  • B: No, I'm good.
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  • Symptoms
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  • When we go to the doctor's office, the doctor will ask about our symptoms.
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  • We can describe our symptoms by talking about the affected body part plus the verb "be" and an adjective.
  • 18
  • My eyes are red and itchy.
  • 19
  • Jannie's throat is sore.
  • 20
  • His finger is swollen.
  • 21
  • We can also name the affected body part and combine it with verbs like "hurt" and "ache."
  • 22
  • "To ache" means to have dull pain for a long time.
  • 23
  • My body aches.
  • 24
  • My back hurts.
  • 25
  • Subject + to have
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  • Another way to express symptoms is to use a personal pronoun like "I" as the subject and "have" with the illness or symptom.
  • 27
  • I have a stomachache.
  • 28
  • Her daughter has an ear infection.
  • 29
  • She had had a sore throat all weekend.
  • 30
  • You have a fever.
  • 31
  • Note that "to have a stomachache" can have several meanings. The first could be that you are experiencing a dull pain in your stomach. The second is that you feel nauseous. The third meaning is that you could have painful gas.
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  • Descriptive verbs
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  • We can also use a descriptive verb to say the action that has occurred on or to a part of the body. Verbs like "hurt," "cut," "scraped" and "injured" are used with personal pronouns as subjects and the affected part of the body as the direct object.
  • 34
  • Direct objects receive the action from the verb.
  • 35
  • Subject + specific verb (cut, hurt, scrape) + body part.
  • 36
  • I cut my finger.
  • 37
  • Ashley bruised her knee.
  • 38
  • We can add more information to the sentence in the form of adverbs and conjunctions.
  • 39
  • I cut my finger yesterday while making dinner.
  • 40
  • Larissa hurt her back when moving boxes last weekend.
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  • Final thoughts
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  • In today's Everyday Grammar, we learned some common ways to express how we are feeling and our symptoms to a health care professional. We learned about sentence structures with the verbs "feel," "have" and descriptive verbs like "cut" and "hurt."
  • 43
  • We also talked about linking parts of the body to symptoms we are feeling using the verb "be."
  • 44
  • Now it is your turn. Here is some homework to practice. Write a few sentences based on today's story. Write one sentence with the verb "feel." Write about part of your body and a symptom it has. Make a sentence using either the verb "to have" or a descriptive verb and a body part.
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  • Are there any other expressions you know for talking about your symptoms and how you are feeling?
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  • Write to us in the comments. Or send your homework to learningenglish@voanews.com.
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  • I'm Faith Pirlo.
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  • Faith Pirlo wrote this lesson for VOA Learning English.
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  • ______________________________
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  • symptoms - n. a change in the body or mind that shows the presence of a disease
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  • nurse -n. a person trained in health care who usually works at a hospital or doctor's office.
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  • awful - adj. extremely bad or unpleasant
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  • dizzy - adj. having a whirling sensation in the head with a tendency to fall; mentally confused
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  • informally - adv. in a way that is not suited for serious or official speech and writing
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  • dull - adj. not exciting or interesting
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  • fever - n. a sickness that causes a high body temperature
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  • nauseous - n. feeling sick in the stomach or as though you were about to expel what is in your stomach
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  • scrape - v. to damage (the surface of something) or hurt (a part of your body) by rubbing something rough or sharp against it or by making it rub against something rough or sharp
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  • bruise - n. an injury from force that discolors the skin and causes pain
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  • conjunction - n. (grammar) a word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words
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