'I feel bad' or 'I feel badly'?

If you apply what you learned in school about adverbs, you might conclude "I feel badly" is more proper than "I feel bad." But you'd be wrong. "Feel" is special type of verb called a copular or linking verb that takes an adjective as its complement. Here's the full story.

 

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Tags: COPULAR VERBS, COPY EDITING, GRAMMAR, I FEEL BAD VS I FEEL BADLY, LINKING VERBS

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