Is "I feel bad" grammatically correct?

Question

'cause I was just thinking, "bad" modifies how you feel, which is a verb, so shouldn't it be "I feel badly"?

Answer 1

Actually, it should be "I feel ill." Feeling 'bad' means your sense of touch is not working correctly.

Answer 2

The sentence is correct because "feel" is used as a linking verb, which connects a subject and its complement. Sometimes called copulas, linking verbs are often forms of the verb to be, but are sometimes verbs related to the five senses (look, sound, smell, feel, taste) and sometimes verbs that somehow reflect a state of being (appear, seem, become, grow, turn, prove, remain). What follows the linking verb will be either a noun complement or an adjective complement:

Those people are all professors.
Those professors are brilliant.
This room smells bad.
I feel great.
A victory today seems unlikely.

Answer 3

Yes. It shoud be I feel bad because feel is a linking verb in this case and should be followed by a predicate adjective. Bad is an adjective. Badly is an adverb

Answer 4

I have a feeling that you are trying to say that feel the emotion of excitement. In that case, no..what you have written is not correct. You should write - "I feel excited.'

Answer 5

Well... actually it depends on whether you are using casual conversation type grammar, or the more formal version of English. The phrase "I feel bad" is correct for informal speech, but incorrect and inexact for formal English. For formal English you would be more specific and say "I feel ill" for when you feel physically ill, and "I feel sad" when you are referring to or responding to something emotionally. Practice being more explicit.

Answer 6

Technically, no, it's not correct. It should be either "I don't feel well" or "I feel unwell", for the physical, and in regards to feeling bad about something that happened, it should be "I feel badly (about...)". But "I feel bad" is so widely accepted that it really doesn't much matter.