| Former-Teacher | Date: Monday, 06.12.2010, 09:04 | Message # 1 |
 Dean
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| Dear Netters! I have come across a few mistakes in some of your posts in which you use the words 'sick' or 'ill'.
One basic rule:
1) When used as predicatives, these two words mean almost the same with a definite medical emphasis in the word 'ill'
E.g.: 'He is sick'- says that somebody has a certain form of physical malfunction, just as we say that he or she feels a little
bad. Often, it is an everyday, colloquial sabstitution of the word 'ill'.
E.g.: 'He is ill'- means a certan diagnosis, often used with intensifiers like 'seriously ill', it is more definite that a person needs
medical treatment.
2) When used as attributes, these two words have absolutely different meanings.
E.g.: 'It is a sick person'(Это больной человек) - means that a person has problems with health and may or may not need
medical treatment.
E.g.: ' It is an ill person"(Это злой/плохой/зловредный/испорченный... человек) means that you are describing somebody's
bad character
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