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Originally Posted by arjaybe
@all With my phrase, "Sage didn't have time to feel bad about killing the big flier," isn't "bad" an adverb?
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There is some silly English normative grammar rule (for native schoolkids) that says that in "feel bad" the word "bad" is not an adverb. In English you don't use "badly" (a proper adverb derived from the adjective) there, so "bad" looks like adjective. And IIRC another justification of calling it an adjective in this sentence involved the group of verbs to do with subjective impressions like feeling.
In reality (i.e. in
descriptive grammar) "bad" modifies the verb here, so it should be possible to call it an adverb, because it functions as an adverb. This is easily seen when comparing the same sentence in other languages. Other languages use an explicit adverb (a la "badly") there.