Bad vs. Badly?

Question

Would it be: I did bad or I did badly?

Answer 1

I did badly.

"Bad" is an adjective describing a noun. For instance, bad dog, bad food, bad hair day.

"Badly" is an adverb describing a verb. For instance, I feel badly, she acted badly, he played the violin badly.

As GM noted --- "poorly" really does sound better anyway ;)

Answer 2

Well, that depends. If you are speaking of doing something badly, that is if you are using the word as an adverb, it is badly. If you are speaking in a less formal manner and you are referring to having done a bad thing, you might use the phrase "I did bad".

Say you took a test and you think you did not do well. You might say to a friend, "I think I did badly on that test."
Or if you if you hit your little sister and you are confessing to your father, you might say "I did bad."

Answer 3

I DID BADLY. Badly is an adverb which describes a verb. to do is a verb (did the past tense of it). so in order to describe a verb you would use badly. Bad is an adjectives. Adjectives describes nouns. bad hair, bad eyes. Hope that helps.

Answer 4

If you were bad then you behaved badly. The "ly" is added to modify the verb. So I am a poor typist and I type badly.

Just for fun, loocheck out the words "good" and "goodly".

Answer 5

Badly is used once you're telling the style you do something. undesirable is used once you describe some component, as a noun. occasion: whilst i'm drained, I carry out badly. occasion: i actually did not appreciate that action picture...it substitute into undesirable.

Answer 6

I did bad. if there's more to the sentence you'd probably use badly.

Answer 7

Badly, I suppose, since it's an adverb, hence describing a verb (in this case "did"); it's really kind of an awkwardly worded statement anyway.

Answer 8

bad

Answer 9

badly

Answer 10

badly