Is it really bad or really badly?

Is it really bad or really badly?

The word bad is an adjective and should be used to modify nouns and pronouns. Badly, like most words ending in -ly, is an adverb and is used to modify verbs.

Is it hurt bad or badly?

The word bad is an adjective that modifies nouns and pronouns: She was in a bad accident. The word badly is an adverb that conveys the manner or degree of a verb’s action: She was hurt badly in the accident.

Is that hurt correct?

“That hurts” is the present tense, and “That hurt” the past, so in theory there’s a clear difference. In practice, of course, anything that hurts now (eg a slap in the face) did hurt when it happened; and if it happened recently enough for “That hurt” to be relevant it’s probably still hurting.

What is correct I feel bad or badly?

Feel bad is the grammatically correct version when describing that you don’t feel well physically or emotionally. Something can “look delicious” but not “look deliciously,” and we “feel sad” and not “feel sadly.” Feel badly is likely heard often due to the adverbial use of “bad” in examples like “it hurts badly.”

What is another word for very bad?

Horrible is popularly used to mean extremely bad—awful, dreadful, or horrendous. When it’s used to describe a person, it often means extremely disagreeable or cruel.

Is more bad grammatically correct?

For this meaning of badly, don’t use the comparative and superlative forms ‘worse’ and ‘worst’. Instead you use the forms more badly and most badly.

What is correct I feel bad for him or I feel badly for him?

To feel badly implies that your sense of touch is not right. When you are referring to a sense of touch, then badly is used as an adverb describing the verb to feel or touch. The correct way to say the sentence is, “I feel bad for him because he didn’t make the cut.”

Is it correct to Say my hurt was bad?

Saying I was “hurt bad” could be alternatively written, “My hurt was bad,” since we’re using “hurt” as a noun, writing it this way demonstrates the error. Saying you were hurt “badly,” once again, implies that the guy hurting you did a poor job. A better word in this context would be severely, or even greatly.

Why can’t you use hurt as a verb in a sentence?

Because hurt is a verb there, technically it’s the adverb. I would probably only use hurt bad if that was the character’s voice. But if you use hurt as a noun, it can be a bad hurt. Then there’s the object: with, ‘don’t feel bad’ bad is the object, not an adverb of feel.

Why do people use the word ‘feel badly’ instead of ‘it hurt badly’?

In this particular case, people who have learned to favor “it hurt badly” over “it hurt bad,” and “need it badly” over “need it bad,” use “feel badly” because they assume it is similarly superior to “feel bad.” If this is the case, though, why don’t we also hear “I feel sadly” or “I feel angrily”?

Is it bad grammar to use ‘hurt bad’ in dialogue?

‘hurt bad’ is poor grammar, but many people say that, so it’s ok to use it in dialog, but not in narrative, unless the narrator uses poor grammar consistently for some good reason… ‘badly hurt’ could be ok or awkward re syntax, depending on the context, though correct grammar…