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Jigneshbharati Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

A fever vs fever

He has a high fever.
Aspirin should help reduce the fever.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fever?q=fever
Please help me to learn the use of the noun fever as a countable in the first and uncountable in the second.
  

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He has a high fever. Aspirin should help reduce the fever. The fever means the fever that has just been mentioned.

  • He has a high fever.
  • Aspirin should help reduce the fever.
  • The fever means the fever that has just been mentioned.
  • It is not uncountable.
  • Consider this simpler example.
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He has a high fever.
Aspirin should help reduce the fever.

The fever means the fever that has just been mentioned. It is not uncountable.

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Hmm. We say

eg He has a fever, a cough, a cold, a headache, a stomache.

eg He has measles, cancer, diabetes.

eg He has the flu.

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