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- "他发烧，在家休息。"
"他发烧，在家休息。"
Translation:He has a fever and is resting at home.
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"he's got a fever. He's at home resting" was disallowed but I think it's fine
It tried this this time: "He has fever and is at home resting" No sorry marked wrong. Compare it to the answer they want: "He has a fever and is resting at home". Drive you nutz, we already speak English.
I completely agree, given similar answers repeat the he or she in the second phrase. You wrote your comment here a year ago. Nothing has changed.
This is what I wrote, which they accept when the question in other examples has a female subject, but it doesn't work when the same question has a male as a subject. Weird.
"He has fever, he is at home resting"
Got marked wrong though.
"He's got a fever" / "he has got a fever" is informal English/casual speech, though.
"He has a fever. He is resting at home." Should be accepted. Most similarly constructed exercises (ie., [phrase] , [phrase]) don't require the use of 'and' in the answer and suddenly this one does, and it's the only option.
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I wrote the same but with ',' instead of '.' But yeah at moments it is very unclear what to do/write
To be honest, these "errors" from inserting/not inserting prepositions when they weren't explicitly stated in Chinese shouldn't be considered errors.
"he's got a fever so he's at home resting" was disallowed but I think it's fine
"He is feverish and is resting at home" was marked wrong. It should be an alternative.
No we don't need an A in English, we often say he/she 'has fever', not 'a' fever although both are correct. Even the Chinese doesn't have 'a' or a 一个 But hey, you could die of old age here before they correct anything, or even read these blogs.
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I'm an American, but I would find the expression "He has fever" to feel very unnatural. I'd expect "He has a fever" or "He is fevered." By any chance are you speaking the Queen's English (British English)? This might be one of those situations where there is a difference in English speech patterns and we're taking it out on Duolingo's poor English/Chinese Translators.
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I'm an American too and have never heard the term "He has fever" but then again we say "He went to a hospital, not he went to hospital" and "He went on a vacation, not he went on holiday" so maybe that explains the "a fever"
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I tried, "He is fevered, and is at home resting." It was wrong.
Is there a meaning difference between "having a fever" and "being fevered?"
Fevered is right as far as coming up with a personal way to remember the word 发烧 , but fevered in English doesn't mean having a fever, but being highly/ nervously excited.
I thought it was a word that could fit the chinese one until i searched it just before i read your comment :)
Native speaker already know you are only referring to one person which is "He" so no need to put "He" again
"He has a fever and is resting at home" feels like it should be accepted to me?
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Where i live we would say "has a temperature", or "running a temperature". Does this translate differently? "Fever" is not common usage unless talking about "scarlet fever" or "yellow fever".
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the word temperature to speak about the weather is 温度。 Not sure if Chinese has two different usages for it like English. Though we use it in English to mean fever as well, it may not translate that way to Chinese.
"He has fever" is perfectly acceptable and correct in English. Not accepted...
"He had fever" and "He has a fever" are equivalent and both widely used in English, they should both be accepted.
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On the listening part, it is impossible to tell the difference between 他 and 她. Both should be accepted and are not accepted as of 1/16/2021.
