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Nina_Nia Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Body temperature
Hello,
Could anyone tell me if these sentences sound natural and are acceptable in American English?
Does he have a temperature?
Does he have a high/running/low temperature?
She is running a temperature.
She is running a fever.
She has a running temperature/fever.
My temperature is 37.9.
My body is 37.9.
Is it pronounced as thirty seven point nine degrees.
Thanks
Could anyone tell me if these sentences sound natural and are acceptable in American English?
Does he have a temperature?
Does he have a high/running/low temperature?
She is running a temperature.
She is running a fever.
She has a running temperature/fever.
My temperature is 37.9.
My body is 37.9.
Is it pronounced as thirty seven point nine degrees.
Thanks
Top answer
In fact, everyone has a temperature (even if they're dead and at room temperature), so the "correct" way to say all of this would be to refer to a fever . Does he have a fever? Is he running a fever?
- In fact, everyone has a temperature (even if they're dead and at room temperature), so the "correct" way to say all of this would be to refer to a fever .
- Does he have a fever?
- Is he running a fever?
- She is running a fever.
- She had a fever so I kept her home from school.
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In fact, everyone has a temperature (even if they're dead and at room temperature), so the "correct" way to say all of this would be to refer to a fever.
Does he have a fever? Is he running a fever? She is running a fever. She had a fever so I kept her home from school.
But in practice, we do say "a temperature" to mean "an elevated temperature = a fever."
Does he have a fever? Is he running a fever? She is running a fever. She had a fever so I kept her home from school.
But in practice, we do say "a temperature" to mean "an elevated temperature = a fever."
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