Grammar Gaffe: I Feel Bad

The title of this post is correct - when you're upset about something, you feel "bad," you don't feel "badly."

Think of other adverbs you use with feel:

I feel sad. (not I feel sadly)
I feel happy. (not I feel happily)
I feel pretty. (not I feel prettily)

I feel bad and I feel badly mean two different things. If you feel badly you're saying that your sense of touch has been damaged and you have a hard time feeling things physically.

If you have been saying "I feel badly," don't feel bad, just correct yourself.