Re: English question

From: "Josh Roth" <Fuscian@...>
> Even with the same example as above:
> He felt happy.
> He felt fashionable.
> He felt good.
> vs.
> *He felt happily.
> *He felt fashionably.
> ?He felt well.  -This is OK for me because of hypercorrection due to
> prescriptivist teachers (or was it my mother?) who said you need an adverb,
> not an adjective, after a verb - if not for that, I'm sure it wouldn't be.
> I'd say, in fact, that "well" in this case  (if the sentence is taken to mean
> "He felt good" rather than "He felt [certain phsyical objects] with
> exceptional ability") is really an adjective.
Actually "well" (= healthy, fit > "wellness") and "good" (= okay, honourable >
"goodness") are both adjectives, and it just happens that "He felt good" and "He
felt well" are basically synonymous.

(Of course in something like your "He felt [things] well" then 'well' would be
the adverbial form of 'good'.)


    *Muke!