Timeline for "I feel bad for you" versus "I feel badly for you"

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Nov 2, 2012 at 18:49	review	Late answers
Nov 2, 2012 at 20:15
May 1, 2012 at 9:53	comment	added	Matt E. Эллен		As well as what Reg says - feel is a copula in I feel good (or I feel well) so joins an adjective to a person.
May 1, 2012 at 8:44	history	edited	RegDwigнt	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 25 characters in body
May 1, 2012 at 8:42	comment	added	RegDwigнt		"I feel good" is perfectly grammatical. There's even a song every person on this planet can sing along. At any rate it's completely off-topic here, and in fact there's a separate question for "good" vs. "well". So I recommend simply removing that bit as you're just shooting yourself in the foot here.
May 1, 2012 at 2:47	history	edited	elimac82	CC BY-SA 3.0	drawing a parallel
May 1, 2012 at 2:36	comment	added	elimac82		That's right, Kaz.
May 1, 2012 at 2:34	history	edited	elimac82	CC BY-SA 3.0	didn't really answer the question before
Apr 26, 2012 at 10:24	history	post merged (destination)
Apr 26, 2012 at 3:05	comment	added	Kaz		No. In "I feel badly for her", "badly" is an adverb and so it modifies "feel".
Apr 26, 2012 at 2:10	comment	added	Linda M. Powers		In my case I am using badly as a verb. I feel badly for her. Am I correct?
Apr 26, 2012 at 2:05	history	answered	elimac82	CC BY-SA 3.0