Well and good are both adjectives in these cases. Which is, of course, all well and good. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. We feel good about answering this question. What to Know Feel bad is the grammatically correct version when describing that you don't feel well physically or emotionally. More Words At Play.
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Week - Oct. Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms. Time Traveler. Love words? Need even more definitions? My problem with this hypothesis is that I can imagine myself saying I feel badly , but not I am badly. It's hard to search for such things on the web since you get lots of examples like I am badly dressed or badly in need of a haircut , but the two examples I've found of of I am badly meaning 'I am unwell' are both by French speakers using English--an interference error from French.
If we're just using badly to match well , then it would stand to reason that one could say I AM badly , since one can say I AM well. But I can't find much evidence of native English speakers doing that. My other hypothesis relates more to how I would use I feel badly --which may not be how everyone else uses it, so let me know if you're different. But if I'm regretting something, I might say I feel badly about killing your parrot. Just an example--no parrots were harmed in the writing of this blog.
I feel badly is limited in this case to emotional states, rather than physical ones. It turns out it's not just my hypothesis, as I've just found this , which makes the same conjecture.
Hm, should've done that bit of the research before writing all this. That one means 'unwell, indisposed'. They don't have a lot of examples of it, and the last one is from According to a addition to the OED, poorly has come to be euphemistically used to mean 'seriously ill'. I believe that this is specifically BrE. They give these examples: Guardian 31 Jan. He hasn't needed oxygen today but he is still quite poorly. I nevertheless maintain that I was justified in using poorly to describe my post-Pimms hangover last weekend.
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Unknown 28 December, David Crosbie 29 December, Mrs Redboots Annabel Smyth 29 December, It hurts my ears. They both are grammatical and understandable here as "I still do not pronounce well". There is a trend in American English to drop 'ly' so that something that acts like an adverb instead looks like an adjective. One most likely would not use 'poor' in this context because it would really stand out as weird 'poor' in this meaning of 'not good' is not particularly common in American English.
Either "I feel poorly" or "I feel badly" would be a grammatically incorrect way to express anything other than a handicap.
If you were trying to express that you felt ill, you'd do better to say, "I feel unwell. Yes, I know the general rule is that adverbs describe verbs and adjectives describe nouns; however, in this case, the adjective "bad" isn't describing the verb "feel," but rather the subject pronoun "I.
Although most of us would shy away from going so far as to say, "I feel evil," that would make much more sense than saying, "I feel evilly. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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