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Originally Posted by issybird
I have to disagree on "feel bad." As I was taught and still think correct, "feel" in this instance is intransitive and "bad" is an adjective. Feel in the transitive use refers to the tactile sense. In any case, bad as an adjective certainly can't be used as an object, which is the work of a noun.
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Adjectives can be - and often are - used in place of nouns as direct objects. Eg consider the sentence "I like red better than blue". What are "red" and "blue" in that sentence?
Would you consider there to be a grammatical difference between the sentences "I feel angry" and "I feel anger"? Both "anger" and "angry" are being used as the object of a transitive verb, although one is a noun and the other an adjective.