I Feel Bad Or I Feel Badly

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.

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. Bad is an adjective that means the opposite of good poor quality or not well. 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. But in practice i feel is such a reflexive term that it is an equivalent to i am.

Feeling badly means dysesthesia a disorder of the sense of touch. It must be the flu. Feel bad or feel badly. Depends both bad and badly work in practice.

Semantically there is no issue here. 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. Neither the adverb nor the adjective are perfectly accurate. To feel badly implies that your sense of touch is not right.

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The idea is that you have a bad feeling. Feeling bad means emotional or physical distress. The correct way to say the sentence is i feel bad for him because he didn t make the cut examples. When you are referring to a sense of touch then badly is used as an adverb describing the verb to feel or touch.

This is one of those cases where the incorrect grammar is so widely used that the correct construction sounds wrong. This soup tastes bad. I feel bad about dropping you off in the middle of the highway but i m running really late. They are more and more used interchangeably possibly under the influence of the american colloquialism feeling poorly.

Can you even separate the feeling state from the feeling action. 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. Or maybe people feel like. I feel bad that i wasn t able to make the concert.

You feel bad for him. Badly is the adverb form of bad. Others switch them with just as much intention.