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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

219 "Bad" Versus "Badly"

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2010

⏱️ 6 minutes

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"Bad" Versus "Badly"

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0:00.0

Grandma girl here, today's topic is bad versus badly, and to make it fun, we have a celebrity

0:10.8

smack down.

0:12.5

On this week's celebrity apprentice, Donald Trump corrected Cindy Lomper.

0:16.4

Here's a clip.

0:17.4

I'm going to fire somebody like a dog.

0:20.4

Who should I fire, Chef?

0:21.4

I'm Maria.

0:22.4

I can't.

0:23.4

Why don't you just say Maria?

0:24.4

Because I feel bad.

0:25.4

She's happy now.

0:26.4

Badly.

0:27.4

You feel badly.

0:29.1

Why don't you just say fire, Maria?

0:31.0

I don't like her.

0:32.7

So not only is Donald Trump not very nice, but he's also wrong.

0:37.3

I feel bad is perfectly acceptable.

0:39.8

In fact, it's the best way to say it, poor Cindy Lomper.

0:43.5

But although Donald should feel bad about being a big ol' meanie, he shouldn't feel too

0:47.9

bad about confusing bad and badly, because it's a common error.

0:52.4

The short answer is that it's correct to say you feel bad when you're expressing an

0:56.4

emotion.

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