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Originally Posted by mobama
By function, "bad" in "feel bad" is an adverb, even though it looks like the adjective "bad". Knowing how to figure out how words function syntactically, as distinguished from mere spelling, is a good skill to have.
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But it’s not - that’s the point. The word “bad” in “I feel bad” is filling the same function as the word “dinner” in “I eat dinner”. It’s saying what you are feeling, not how you are feeling it. It is not an adverb in any way, shape or form.