Bad/badly

[Yankee]

''I feel bad. :tick: I feel badlypoorly.'' You crossed it (badly) out because here you are talking about health. Am I right? Yes. If I feel guilty I can use I feel bad, (Yes,I would expect to use and hear "bad' in that context)) I feel poorly (maybe,but would not expect to hear or use)and even I feel badly (for me 50/50) with ''badly'' being a nonstandard form. Is that right? Just reasking to make sure I don't misunderstand.

Y

 

[jutfrank]

Is there a complete list of such verbs? It would be very helpful to study them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_copulae

 

[Rachel Adams]

Y

If I am talking about a relationship. It won't be wrong to say ''It ended badly or poorly.'' But not ''bad.'' Am I right?

 

[GoesStation]

If I am talking about a relationship. It won't be wrong to say ''It ended badly or poorly.'' But not ''bad.'' Am I right?

Yes. In casual speech, many native speakers would say It ended bad, but learners shouldn't do this.

 

[jutfrank]

If I am talking about a relationship. It won't be wrong to say ''It ended badly or poorly.'' But not ''bad.'' Am I right?

Use badly there, not poorly or bad.

 

[Phaedrus]

If I am talking about a relationship. It won't be wrong to say ''It ended badly or poorly.'' But not ''bad.'' Am I right?

"Bad" works with "ended up," which again is copulative.

It started out good, but ended up bad.

 

[jutfrank]

"Bad" works with "ended up," which again is copulative.

It started out good, but ended up bad.

Nice. (There's nothing quite like a lovely bit of casual copulation on a locked-down Saturday night!)

 

[GoesStation]

I think it's kind of cool that this sentence also works, and means very nearly the same thing: It started well but ended badly.

 

[Rachel Adams]

I think it's kind of cool that this sentence also works, and means very nearly the same thing: It started well but ended badly.

What's wrong with ''poorly?''

 

[GoesStation]

I think it's kind of cool that this sentence also works, and means very nearly the same thing: It started well but ended badly.

What's wrong with ''poorly?''

That's also possible.

 

[Rachel Adams]

That's also possible.

In American English? The relationship started well but ended poorly. The relationship ended up poorly.

 

[GoesStation]

In American English? The relationship started well but ended poorly. The relationship ended [STRIKE]up[/STRIKE] poorly.

They're both possible with my correction. "Poorly" is less bad than "badly".