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Adjectives and Adverbs: bad and badly

Mini-Lesson #3. Adjectives and Adverbs: bad and badly. From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons Series. Bad. Bad is an adjective used after sense verbs or after linking verbs. Example: I feel bad about missing your graduation . The food tastes bad .

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Adjectives and Adverbs: bad and badly

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  1. Mini-Lesson #3 Adjectives and Adverbs: bad and badly From the UWF Writing Lab’s 101 Grammar Mini-Lessons Series

  2. Bad Bad is an adjective used after sense verbs or after linking verbs. Example: I feel bad about missing your graduation. The food tastes bad. The child is bad.

  3. Badly Badly is an adverb used after all other verbs. Example: Tom writes badly. The chef cooks badly. The child acts badly.

  4. Good Test Sentence • He smells bad because he smells badly. • (He has an odor because he has no sense of smell.)

  5. Examples • If the underdog wants to win badly enough, he can defeat an opponent who is physically superior. • The instructor felt bad about giving the students a “pop” quiz covering a chapter that they were not assigned. • Missing the train, Joe felt bad about not being at the game. • Though the company did well during the war, things have been going badly ever since. • The team felt bad about losing the swimming meet.

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