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Riglos Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

I feel good / well / fine English usage

Hi people!
I've heard the three of these options, though I've been taught that "I feel good" is not grammatically correct.
Isn't it grammatically correct in any context?
What if I want to convey the idea that I feel I am a good person?
And anyway, is "I feel good" of widespread use?
Besides, why can I say "I feel bad", bad being the opposite of good?
Thanks a lot!
Mara.
  

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Hello I think you can say "I feel good" as long as you are talking about your emotional state, not about your health. paco

— Paco2004

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Hello

I think you can say "I feel good" as long as you are talking about your emotional state, not about your health.

paco
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I've been taught that "I feel good" is not grammatically correct.

Mara,
I'm sorry to say that you have been taught badly.
"I feel good" and "I feel bad" are both perfectly good English sentences.
These normally have to do with your mood.

There are also:
"I feel well" and "I feel ill".
These have to do with your health.
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Thanks for your reply CalifJim!

I sensed something was wrong with this rule I was taught. "I feel good" sounded perfectly normal to me.

Now, is "good" here functioning as an adverb?

Thanks a lot!

Mara.
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Hello Mara

The "good" in "I feel good" is an adjective. It means "pleasant". The "well" in "I feel well" is also an adjective. It means "sound in health" or "free from sickness".

paco
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00Doesn't "I feel well" mean that the speaker has good tactile sense? This could have a medical connotation when referring to the nervoous system but I don't think I've ever heard it used that way.0-
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0 Doesn't "I feel well" mean that the speaker has good tactile sense?02br
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00 Not really. For that it would be more common to say, "I have a good sense of touch" or "I have very sensitive skin", in the rare case you might wish to make a point of such a thing. Maladies affecting this ability might be reported to a doctor as "My fingers seem numb", "I can't feel anyt
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0Hi all,02br
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00How about your opinion about 01b00I feel fine02b00?02br
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00I feel fine = I feel good or I feel fine = I feel welll ?02br
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00Thanks02br
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0 The way I use it, 01i00I feel fine = I feel well02i00.02br
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01i00-- You seem pale and weak. Are you ill?02br
00 -- It's nothing really. I feel fine.02i02br
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0My grandma's favourite awful joke: when anyone asked her how she was feeling, she always replied "Still with my hands".02br
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00I think we avoid saying "I feel well" when referring to touch precisely because of this ambiguity. We wouldn't mind saying we 01u00see02u00 well or 01u00hear02u00 well.0-
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The answer is plain and simple. The word "good" is an adjective. The word "well" is an adverb. Adjectives descibe nouns. Adverbs decribe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.




Break down the sentence "I feel good." "I" is a pronoun, "feel" is a verb, and "good" is an adjective. The adjective "good" is used incorrectly to attempt to describe the verb "feel." Only an
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