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I'm recently revising my Japanese for the upcoming JLPT this July (I'm taking
N4), and I came up with difficulties in using these 2 items.

For example:

> 気分が良くなりました。やっとねつが (下がりました...)。

(I have to choose そうです ・ ようです to fill in the blank)

Can there be a simple way to distinguish between them? Thank you in advance !
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grammar word-usage
The differences between そうです ・ ようです
No matter what your choice be, you can append ようです or そうです, the sentence will
be grammatically perfect. What is important here is the context.

The sentence

> 気分が良くなりました。

indicates that the speaker talks about himself, otherwise, the statement
should be less direct. Thus the fact that the fever cooled is first-hand
information from the speaker, he describes his state (that is what ようです is
for: describing a state) whereas そうです when appended to a 終止形 indicates rumor
(it seems that, it is said that, ...) not to be mixed up with the そうです that
clip itself on the 連用形 and express also a state (in the same way as ようです).

To sum up, here the speaker describes a first-hand fact, thus he can't use
そうです here, ようです is the correct answer.

EDIT: As pointed out by chocolate, よう・そう would rather connect to さがった rather
than さがりました.
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