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Which of the following is grammatically incorrect?

  1. He felt bad about standing up his date.

  2. It was beginning to look bad for the baseball team.

  3. He felt badly about standing up his date.

  4. The baseball team played badly the other night.
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Explanation

Feel is a linking verb that connects the subject to an adjective describing the subject's state or condition. Badly is an adverb, so He felt badly is incorrect. The correct form is He felt bad, using the adjective bad after the linking verb felt. In contrast, The team played badly is correct because play is an action verb modified by the adverb badly.

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