Question

Fill in the blank with the appropriate answer:
I feel ____ about what happened.
(a)bad
(b)badly
(c)horribly
(d)Both A and B

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and try to understand what it is trying to convey. Now go through the options and recall what each of them means/express. You can use the hit and trial method to select the option which fits the context of the sentence and also is grammatically correct.

Complete answer: An adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something. It is the word class that qualifies nouns.
In the given question, we have to find out which of the options includes an adjective that describes how not-good the speaker felt about what had happened. An adverb cannot be used as it is used to modify something other than a noun, and ‘about’ is an adverb already present in the sentence.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'bad', refers to ‘feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone’.Therefore, option (a.) is correct as it is an adjective.
Option (b.), ‘badly', refers to ‘to a severe or serious degree’.Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as it is an adverb.
Option (c.), ‘horribly', refers to ‘of a dreadful kind’. Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as it is an adverb.
Option (d.), ‘Both A and B', says that both ‘bad’ and ‘badly’ can be used for the given blank. Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as ‘badly’ is an adverb and thus cannot be used here.

Note: In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of an adverb. An adverb is a word that modifies something other than a noun. It is the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses. This will help the students to eliminate the undesired options.