I Feel Bad Or I Feel Badly

Feeling bad means emotional or physical distress.

Can you even separate the feeling state from the feeling action. But in practice i feel is such a reflexive term that it is an equivalent to i am. Or maybe people feel like. The idea is that you have a bad feeling.

I feel bad that i wasn t able to make the concert. Action verbs which describe an activity or movement need adverbs to modify how the action is being done. Badly is an adverb and it describes how you do something or as some would say it modifies a verb as long as it isn t a linking verb. Feeling badly means dysesthesia a disorder of the sense of touch.

It must be the flu. Others switch them with just as much intention. It reminds me of my grandmother s cooking. It is possible but unlikely that you are trying to describe that you aren t very successful at reaching out and feeling the things around you i feel badly.

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I feel bad about dropping you off in the middle of the highway but i m running really late. Feel bad or feel badly. Again it is far more likely that what you want to express is the negative emotional or physical state you are in i feel bad. This is one of those cases where the incorrect grammar is so widely used that the correct construction sounds wrong.

In theory you should say badly because badly should be referring to how you feel and thus requires an adverb badly not an adjective bad. Badly is the adverb form of bad. The correct way to say the sentence is i feel bad for him because he didn t make the cut examples. I feel bad puts the bad property onto you contrast with i feel inadequate and i feel badly puts it onto feel rather than the feeling.

Neither the adverb nor the adjective are perfectly accurate. When you are referring to a sense of touch then badly is used as an adverb describing the verb to feel or touch. But some people make a considered distinction between feel bad and feel badly choosing feel bad when feel is about physical health and feel badly when feel is about an emotional state. They are more and more used interchangeably possibly under the influence of the american colloquialism feeling poorly.

This soup tastes bad. Semantically there is no issue here. Bad is an adjective that means the opposite of good poor quality or not well.