"Where is the pain?" or "Where exactly is the pain?"

Student or Learner
The patient: I have pain in my body.
The doctor: "Where is the pain at or where is the pain exactly at?"
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"Where is the pain?" or "Where exactly is the pain?"
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Or Whereabouts is the pain?
Note that "I have pain in my body" is not a natural statement. It's grammatically correct but it's not something a native would say.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Exactly. Where else are you going to have pain? Sometimes I wish you could occasionally take it and put it in the cupboard, but it doesn't work that way.
I would say: I feel pain in my stomach(instead of "body").
I am not a teacher.
We have specific expressions for pain in a few areas of the body: headache, backache, stomachache, earache and toothache (but not teethache).
[With different meanings, there's 'heartache' (emotional hurt and not physical pain), and 'faceache'.]
Last edited by Rover_KE; 29-Sep-2016 at 08:19.
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