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sweet
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 6:00 pm
Post subject: bad and badly |
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Can you compare and tell me what differences between 'bad' and 'badly' are?
(ex: I feel bad.
I feel badly.) |
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 6:00 pm
Post subject: Re: bad and badly |
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sweet wrote:
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Can you compare and tell me what differences between 'bad' and 'badly' are?
(ex: I feel bad.
I feel badly.)
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Literal answers first:
1. When you feel bad, you are sick (or ill, or unwell). "Feel"
here is a copulative verb and "dad" is a predicate adjective
modifying "I."
2. When you feel badly, there is something wrong with the nerves in
your fingertips. "Badly" is an adverb modifying "feel."
And now a dose of reality:
Frequently "feel badly" is used -- mostly in speech, rarely in
writing -- to mean what "feel bad" literally means. When this
occurs, "badly" is performing the role of "bad" as a predicate
adjective. There's a comment on this at
<http://www.bartleby.com/61/7/B0020700.html>. Scroll down to the
last four lines of the section marked "Usage Note." "Badly" as a
substitute for "bad" is, to my knowledge, used only for "bad" in the
sense "ill" or "unwell."
--
Bob Lieblich
Feeling just finely, thank you |
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John Dean
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:02 am
Post subject: Re: bad and badly |
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sweet wrote:
| Quote: | Can you compare and tell me what differences between 'bad' and
'badly' are? (ex: I feel bad.
I feel badly.)
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When you feel bad you're in a Hollywood movie. When you feel badly
you're in a Lancashire Doctor's surgery.
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John Dean
Oxford |
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:03 am
Post subject: Re: bad and badly |
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Robert Lieblich typed thus:
| Quote: | sweet wrote:
Can you compare and tell me what differences between 'bad' and 'badly' are?
(ex: I feel bad.
I feel badly.)
Literal answers first:
1. When you feel bad, you are sick (or ill, or unwell). "Feel"
here is a copulative verb and "dad" is a predicate adjective
modifying "I."
2. When you feel badly, there is something wrong with the nerves in
your fingertips. "Badly" is an adverb modifying "feel."
And now a dose of reality:
Frequently "feel badly" is used -- mostly in speech, rarely in
writing -- to mean what "feel bad" literally means. When this
occurs, "badly" is performing the role of "bad" as a predicate
adjective. There's a comment on this at
http://www.bartleby.com/61/7/B0020700.html>. Scroll down to the
last four lines of the section marked "Usage Note." "Badly" as a
substitute for "bad" is, to my knowledge, used only for "bad" in the
sense "ill" or "unwell."
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In some UK regions, "to feel badly" also includes the meaning "to
feel bad about having done something".
--
David
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replace the first component of address
with the definite article. |
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