[Grammar] a high temperature OR high temperature

[kharchenko]

Hi,I need your help
I am writing an essay from English and don't know how to write it correctly. I have this sentence:
"As for me, I caught a cold a month ago. And it was terrible. I had very a high temperature"
how should i write this? A HIGH TEMPRETURE / HIGH TEMPERATURE .
With "a", or no. Thanks.

 

[teechar]

Welcome to the forum.

Hi. I need your help.
I am writing an essay [STRIKE]from[/STRIKE] in English, and I don't know how to write it correctly. I have this sentence:
"As for me, I caught a cold a month ago. And it was terrible. I had a very high temperature".
How should I write this?

See above.

 

[Tarheel]

We wouldn't normally say "I had a high temperature." Instead, we would say "I had a fever."

 

[emsr2d2]

BrE uses "a high temperature" to refer to a temperature that's just higher than normal. I would use "a fever" only if I felt seriously unwell with it - ie a very high temperature, accompanied by sweating/shivering.

I used to have regular bouts of tonsillitis as a child - they were accompanied by a temperature of about 99-99.5 degrees. That's higher than normal but not, according to my mum or the doctor, anything more urgent.
When I had cellulitis (blood poisoning) later in life, my temperature reached 103 degrees! Now that was a fever. I was sweating, shivering uncontrollably and at one point, started hallucinating!

 

[Rover_KE]

kharchenko, for future reference, this is how your post should look:

[STRiKE]Hi. I need your help[/STRiKE]. Unnecessary. Just go ahead and ask your question.

I am writing an essay [STRIKE]from[/STRIKE] in English, and I don't know how to write it correctly. I have this sentence:

"As for me, I caught a cold a month ago, and it was terrible. I had a very high temperature".

How should I write this? "a high temperature"/"high temperature" – with "a", or not.

 

[kharchenko]

We wouldn't normally say "I had a high temperature." Instead, we would say "I had a fever."

Ok, but it's for the British or American English?

 

[kharchenko]

Thanks for the answers, but I would like to know why I should use the article "a". Is there one rule for this?

 

[emsr2d2]

We wouldn't normally say "I had a high temperature." Instead, we would say "I had a fever."

OK, but [STRIKE]it's[/STRIKE] is that for the British or American English?

If you look at Tarheel's profile, you will see that he is native American English speaker, so he was answering about that variant.

 

[emsr2d2]

Thanks for the answers, but I would like to know why I should use the article "a". Is there one rule for this?

Are you asking specifically why you must use the indefinite article before "high temperature" and "fever", or why/when we use the indefinite article before nouns?