Hello, my dear friends! And welcome to English Mania! My name is Antonia Romaker
and today we'll study the difference between sick and ill. Do they seem the same?
They are the same in most cases but in some they aren't.
There are some set expressions which are used only with sick or with ill.
So let's cut to the chase!
First of all sick and ill mean not feeling well.
Both sick and ill mean not in good health.
with different verbs: to be ill or sick, to become ill or sick, to feel ill, to look ill, to seem ill.
Does he seem ill to you?
You can also say to be ill with something or to be sick with something.
And you say what kind of a disease you have.
To be ill with a cold, to be ill with the flu.
I'm sorry I didn't come to your birthday party I was ill with the flu.
Couldn't come I was sick with the flu.
He is off sick today. He is off ill today. Both variants are possible.
It means that he didn't come to work because he is ill.
You can talk about work or school or kindergarten here.
To be off sick, to be off ill, to be absent because you are ill.
She was seriously ill with pneumonia.
Now let's talk about differences now.
Sick is used with nouns and ill isn't. A sick child, a sick person, sick people, a sick colleague and so on.
She's been looking after a sick child this week so she's not at work.
Notice that in British English to be sick can mean to vomit
while in American English it is mostly about feeling unwell.
I think I'm gonna be sick.
Desperately ill, gravely ill, seriously ill when it is really serious.
You can also say to be terminally ill or to be incurably ill when the person can't be cured.
To call in sick, to report sick or to report ill
is used when you call your employer and say that you are ill you can't come to work.
To call in sick, to report ill to report sick.
Okay, that's it about these two words sick and ill.
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