2018年6月18日 · a flu virus to catch/get/have (the) flu. U - means uncountable. You can have more or less flu but you can't have a flu or two flus. Also notice that the example given indicate the use of the. More info about countable vs uncountable, here. EDITED: userr2684291 pointed that The flu is used in AmE, while flu or occasionally the flu (somewhat old ...

Never "a flu": always "the". (He has the flu, she has a cold, they have bronchitis. Unfortunately, there's no pattern that I can tell so you just have to learn which diseases take which article and which take none.) –

2022年3月10日 · Some people will have cold-like symptoms, some people will have flu-like symptoms, and some people will have symptoms that are, for the most part, unique to COVID-19. Until very, very recently, we usually didn't test for any of the specific viruses that caused cold or the flu, because it didn't matter.

2015年9月19日 · Using "got" and "have" can be simply statements of a current condition, they are more "inactive" I was sitting on the couch all day and got a cold. I stayed indoors, and now I have a cold. There is a joke in the programming community. I've got a code in my node. I've got a cold in my nose (as said with a blocked nose)

2025年1月4日 · This sentence is guaranteed to trip up native speakers, for whom it's basically a 50/50 choice. I wouldn't worry about it. In other news, though, the "nearest noun" rule is not good. For example: "Reports of bad weather have been coming in." Here one uses "have" because the subject of the verb is "reports", not "weather". –

2018年2月22日 · Both phrases are grammatically correct as shown. The difference is in the verbs have and got. Have means to possess, and is in the present tense. Got is the past participle of the verb to get. Technically speaking, the first phrase is …

2016年6月18日 · In this case, it is generally understood that the hospital in question to be the most appropriate one; commonly this is the closest one (when seconds can mean the difference between life and death, a longer trip can literally kill you), though it can also assume an associated hospital (a Mayo Clinic Ambulance brings people to Mayo Clinic), or ...

2021年5月24日 · All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life. Well, talk about lexical ambiguity. But as strange as this sentence might sound, it is actually grammatically correct.

2017年4月13日 · For example, in preparing dinner I did the best I could with the ingredients available in the refrigerator, but if I'd had time to go to the supermarket I could have bought more ingredients to cook something much nicer. Or in running a race I did the best I could given that I had the flu, but usually I'm a better runner than that.

2016年8月25日 · "Have you" when the word 'have' expresses a helping verb, (for example: I have made it.) we can make it question just by replacing 'have' before the subject (Have I made it?). And whole the rest sentence will remain same. In the sentence "I have made it" , 'made' is the main verb where 'have' is just helping it.