Grammar for Describing When We Are Not Feeling Well
2023-04-28
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1Imagine you are feeling sick, and you need to go to the doctor.
2Your throat might hurt or you might have a high temperature.
3What do you say? How do you describe how you are feeling?
4In Today's Everyday Grammar, we will learn how to describe sickness and how to talk about our symptoms.
5When you go to the doctor, it is important to describe what you are feeling.
6The doctor or nurse might ask you: "How do you feel?"
7You can answer with the verb "to feel" plus an adjective to describe the feeling.
8I feel good, healthy, amazing.
9He feels bad, awful, terrible.
10Nancy felt sick. They feel ill.
11I feel weak and dizzy.
12We can use "not" with the adjective "well" to also say that we do not feel good.
13I do not feel well today.
14While "well" is most commonly used to describe health, "good" is also used informally.
15A: Are you feeling under the weather today?
16B: No, I'm good.
17When we go to the doctor's office, the doctor will ask about our symptoms.
18We can describe our symptoms by talking about the affected body part plus the verb "be" and an adjective.
19My eyes are red and itchy.
20Jannie's throat is sore.
21His finger is swollen.
22We can also name the affected body part and combine it with verbs like "hurt" and "ache."
23"To ache" means to have dull pain for a long time.
24My body aches.
25My back hurts.
26Another way to express symptoms is to use a personal pronoun like "I" as the subject and "have" with the illness or symptom.
27I have a stomachache.
28Her daughter has an ear infection.
29She had had a sore throat all weekend.
30You have a fever.
31Note that "to have a stomachache" can have several meanings.
32The first could be that you are experiencing a dull pain in your stomach.
33The second is that you feel nauseous.
34The third meaning is that you could have painful gas.
35We can also use a descriptive verb to say the action that has occurred on or to a part of the body.
36Verbs like "hurt," "cut," "scraped" and "injured" are used with personal pronouns as subjects and the affected part of the body as the direct object.
37Direct objects receive the action from the verb.
38Subject + specific verb (cut, hurt, scrape) + body part.
39I cut my finger.
40Ashley bruised her knee.
41We can add more information to the sentence in the form of adverbs and conjunctions.
42I cut my finger yesterday while making dinner.
43Larissa hurt her back when moving boxes last weekend.
44In today's Everyday Grammar, we learned some common ways to express how we are feeling and our symptoms to a health care professional.
45We learned about sentence structures with the verbs "feel," "have" and descriptive verbs like "cut" and "hurt."
46We also talked about linking parts of the body to symptoms we are feeling using the verb "be."
47Now it is your turn. Here is some homework to practice.
48Write a few sentences based on today's story.
49Write one sentence with the verb "feel."
50Write about part of your body and a symptom it has.
51Make a sentence using either the verb "to have" or a descriptive verb and a body part.
52Are there any other expressions you know for talking about your symptoms and how you are feeling?
53Write to us in the comments. Or send your homework to learningenglish@voanews.com.
54I'm Faith Pirlo.
1Imagine 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? 2In Today's Everyday Grammar, we will learn how to describe sickness and how to talk about our symptoms. 3Feel 4When 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?" 5You can answer with the verb "to feel" plus an adjective to describe the feeling. 6I feel good, healthy, amazing. 7He feels bad, awful, terrible. 8Nancy felt sick. They feel ill. 9I feel weak and dizzy. 10We can use "not" with the adjective "well" to also say that we do not feel good. 11I do not feel well today. 12While "well" is most commonly used to describe health, "good" is also used informally. 13A: Are you feeling under the weather today? 14B: No, I'm good. 15Symptoms 16When we go to the doctor's office, the doctor will ask about our symptoms. 17We can describe our symptoms by talking about the affected body part plus the verb "be" and an adjective. 18My eyes are red and itchy. 19Jannie's throat is sore. 20His finger is swollen. 21We 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. 23My body aches. 24My back hurts. 25Subject + to have 26Another way to express symptoms is to use a personal pronoun like "I" as the subject and "have" with the illness or symptom. 27I have a stomachache. 28Her daughter has an ear infection. 29She had had a sore throat all weekend. 30You have a fever. 31Note 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. 32Descriptive verbs 33We 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. 34Direct objects receive the action from the verb. 35Subject + specific verb (cut, hurt, scrape) + body part. 36I cut my finger. 37Ashley bruised her knee. 38We can add more information to the sentence in the form of adverbs and conjunctions. 39I cut my finger yesterday while making dinner. 40Larissa hurt her back when moving boxes last weekend. 41Final thoughts 42In 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." 43We also talked about linking parts of the body to symptoms we are feeling using the verb "be." 44Now 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. 45Are there any other expressions you know for talking about your symptoms and how you are feeling? 46Write to us in the comments. Or send your homework to learningenglish@voanews.com. 47I'm Faith Pirlo. 48Faith Pirlo wrote this lesson for VOA Learning English. 49______________________________ 50symptoms - n. a change in the body or mind that shows the presence of a disease 51nurse -n. a person trained in health care who usually works at a hospital or doctor's office. 52awful - adj. extremely bad or unpleasant 53dizzy - adj. having a whirling sensation in the head with a tendency to fall; mentally confused 54informally - adv. in a way that is not suited for serious or official speech and writing 55dull - adj. not exciting or interesting 56fever - n. a sickness that causes a high body temperature 57nauseous - n. feeling sick in the stomach or as though you were about to expel what is in your stomach 58scrape - 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 59bruise - n. an injury from force that discolors the skin and causes pain 60conjunction - n. (grammar) a word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words 61What do you think of this story? We want to hear from you. Write to us at learningenglish@voanews.com or leave us a comment below. 62We have a new comment system. Here is how it works: 63Each time you return to comment on the Learning English site, you can use your account and see your comments and replies to them. Our comment policy is here.