Thread: What's an Adverb?
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Old 01-27-2018, 02:22 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by sjfan View Post
The highlighted is where this goes astray: “bad” is not modifying “feel” or performing any other function of an adverb in this construction.
Precisely. Compare with "he ran bad" where, although horribly ungrammatical, "bad" is modifying the verb and hence is an adverb.
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