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You should say "feel bad" if you are talking about feeling sad, remorseful, or physically unwell--where "bad" refers to your state. Feel is a linking verb in this context, and is used with the predicate adjective bad rather than the adverb badly. The only sense in which "feel badly" is correct is if you are using feel as an action verb. For example, if you have nerve damage and have lost most sensation in your fingers, you probably feel badly (just as you would probably play the piano badly in that condition).

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Which is correct- you feel bad or you feel badly?

You feel bad. To feel badly would only mean to have poor sense of touch.


Which is grammatically correct 1 you feel bad about what you said or 2 you feel badly about what you said?

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How do you use badly in a sentence?

Nobody in Mr. Hanson's fifth grade math class understood negative numbers, but Joseph did especially badly with them."Bad" is an adjective, and modifies nouns. "Badly" is an adverb, and generally modifies verbs (altho it can also modify nouns). "I feel bad." "I was bad." "I did badly." "He drove badly."The student failed the class because his paper was badly written.


You feel bad or you feel badly?

I feel bad is correct. In this case, "bad" is what is known as a "predicate adjective". Predicate adjectives follow certain types of verbs such as: seem, appear, look (he looks bad), sound, feel (there are others) The easiest way to know whether to use bad or badly is to try substituting another adjective: Would you say: My dog died today; I feel really sadly? You must have worked a long day, you look terribly?


Which is Correct Grammar ---to feel bad or to feel badly?

Badly is an adverb of the word feel so that is the correct word to use. Remember the old rule? LY words are adverbs. They describe verb words.She is lovely.My mother feels lonely.What made my cat so sickly?The word bad describes the state of something or someone being a bad person or thing.Jon is a bad boy because he does not like his new home.He is not always bad, but his parents moved from Hawaii to Minnesota.

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Which is correct- you feel bad or you feel badly?

You feel bad. To feel badly would only mean to have poor sense of touch.


Which is grammatically correct 1 you feel bad about what you said or 2 you feel badly about what you said?

hrtytrytryr


How do you use badly in a sentence?

Nobody in Mr. Hanson's fifth grade math class understood negative numbers, but Joseph did especially badly with them."Bad" is an adjective, and modifies nouns. "Badly" is an adverb, and generally modifies verbs (altho it can also modify nouns). "I feel bad." "I was bad." "I did badly." "He drove badly."The student failed the class because his paper was badly written.


You feel bad or you feel badly?

I feel bad is correct. In this case, "bad" is what is known as a "predicate adjective". Predicate adjectives follow certain types of verbs such as: seem, appear, look (he looks bad), sound, feel (there are others) The easiest way to know whether to use bad or badly is to try substituting another adjective: Would you say: My dog died today; I feel really sadly? You must have worked a long day, you look terribly?


Can you pleas give me a sentences using the word badly?

This is beautifully played out in "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang"Harry: Umm, clearly I'm interrupting. I feel badly. Let me... What are you drinking?Harmony: Bad.Harry: Bad? Sorry... feel...?Harmony: You feel bad.Harry: Bad?Harmony: Badly is an adverb. So to say you feel badly would be saying that the machanism which allows you to feel is broken.Later, Harry tries to use his newfound knowledge on Perry:Perry: Go. Sleep badly. Any questions, hesitate to call.Harry: Bad.Perry: Excuse me?Harry: Sleep bad. Otherwise it makes it seem like the mechanism that allows you to sleep...Perry: What, f**khead? Who taught you grammar? Badly's an adverb. Get out. Vanish.


Which is Correct Grammar ---to feel bad or to feel badly?

Badly is an adverb of the word feel so that is the correct word to use. Remember the old rule? LY words are adverbs. They describe verb words.She is lovely.My mother feels lonely.What made my cat so sickly?The word bad describes the state of something or someone being a bad person or thing.Jon is a bad boy because he does not like his new home.He is not always bad, but his parents moved from Hawaii to Minnesota.


How is the word bad used as an adverb?

Our trip could turn out badly. Bad is not an adverb. Badly is an adverb.


What is the difference between bad and badly?

Bad is generally used as an adjective while badly is used as an adverb.


She fell and hurt herself quite bad-badly Which one should I use and why?

badly. In this content it makes sense. If you wanted to use the word bad then you could write The fall was quite bad.


How did people feel about the evacuation?

badly


What is a comparative adverb for badly?

bad


What is the adverb form of bad?

badly