Common Mistakes : Fever

noun

.BAD: I’d caught a cold and had a high fever
.GOOD: I’d caught a cold and had a high temperature

: When someone feels rather ill and their body is hotter than usual, they have a (high) temperature
.I feel as if I’ve got a temperature
.She’s in bed with a high temperature

: A fever usually refers to a (dangerously) high body temperature, or the disease that produces this
.In the steaming jungle he had contracted a fever
.It seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces