{"id":437,"date":"2008-12-04T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/i-feel-bad-vs-i-feel-badly\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T01:46:29","slug":"i-feel-bad-vs-i-feel-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2008\/12\/i-feel-bad-vs-i-feel-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"“I feel bad.” vs. “I feel badly.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought again about these two forms after hearing someone claim that only one of these was correct.<\/p>\n

Problem:<\/strong>
\nThe verb “feel” can take an adjective or an adverb.<\/p>\n

Explanation:<\/strong>
\nThe verb “feel” is a loaded verb in that it relates to a state of health or emotion as well as to the sense of touch.<\/p>\n

The verb “feel” can be used as a linking verb, which is called a “copula”<\/a> in linguistics.<\/p>\n

A linking verb ties the subject of a sentence with the predicate of the sentence.<\/p>\n

As described elsewhere<\/a>, the verbs “be”, “become”, and “seem” are called true<\/em> linking verbs because they can be nothing else.<\/p>\n

Examples include:<\/p>\n