{"id":1531,"date":"2016-09-25T16:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2016-09-25T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T16:28:54","slug":"bad-and-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/bad-and-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad and badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These words are often confused.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad<\/strong> is an adjective whereas<strong> badly<\/strong> is an adverb.<\/p>\n<p>When someone feels ill, they feel <strong>\u2018bad\u2019,<\/strong> not badly. Likewise, when someone feels sorry about something, they feel bad, not badly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t feel <strong>bad<\/strong> about breaking the glass.<\/li>\n<li>I feel <strong>bad<\/strong>. I think I should see a doctor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only meaning of <strong>badly<\/strong> is \u2018improperly or in an unsatisfactory manner\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My children always behave badly when we have guests.<\/li>\n<li>You sing very badly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u2018Badly\u2019<\/strong> can also mean very much.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She wants a new car <strong>badly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words are often confused. Bad is an adjective whereas badly is an adverb. When someone feels ill, they feel \u2018bad\u2019, not badly. Likewise, when someone feels sorry about something, they feel bad, not&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-bad-and-badly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}