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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / May 2004I feel well ... dobe dobe dobdob
Hi! today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I feel well" since it is forbidden to use an adverb after a sensory verb, like feel. However I still have the feeling that it is perfectly legitimate to say "I feel well" meaning "I feel like I am in a good state of health." Native speakers opinion? niox > Hi! > today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Native speakers opinion? "Well" is also an adjective, usually used only predicatively - as an adjective it means "in good health". It's use is very common, e.g. as a response to the greeting "How are you?" - "I'm very well, thank you." Who criticised you - your pupils or other teachers? In either case they are talking rubbish. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan (English teacher and native speaker) > > Hi! > > today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Regards, Einde O'Callaghan (English teacher and native speaker) Thank you, your response cleared my confusion right up. And it was a senior teacher who was talking rubbish in this case. :-) Niox > Hi! > today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > niox Yup, 'I feel well' is fine. > since it is forbidden to use an adverb after a sensory > verb, like feel. is it? Well, I can think of other examples like "I feel poorly"... "She listens carefully"... You'll have to give us some examples of how this is seen to be wrong. What do you think Einde? Django >> Hi! >> today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > listens carefully"... You'll have to give us some examples of how this > is seen to be wrong. What do you think Einde? "Poorly" is an adjective like "well", but in "I felt carefully under the chair" "carefully" is an adverb describing the manner in which "I felt under the chair", just as "I listened carefully" describes the manner in which "I listened". Regards, Einde O'Callaghan > > Hi! > > today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Django Just a couple of examples to clarify what I meant. There are a couple of sensory verbs: seem, feel, sound, taste, smell, after which one is not supposed to use an adverb, but rather an adjective as in the following examples: Your horse looks good. That sounds great. The soup tasted wonderful. I feel well. :-) (where well is the adjective meaning in good health) Niox >>>Hi! >>>today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > The soup tasted wonderful. > I feel well. :-) (where well is the adjective meaning in good health) However most of these verbs can also be used to describe actions and in this sense they can be modified by adverbs: He looked carefully at the horse's teeth. The tuba sounded loudly in his ear. He tasted the soup noisily. He felt the material carefully. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan > Hi! > today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I > feel well" since it is forbidden "Forbidden". Funny expression to use for language ;) > to use an adverb after a sensory > verb, like feel. > > However I still have the feeling that it is perfectly legitimate to > say "I feel well" meaning "I feel like I am in a good state of > health." I like that sentence very well indeed! :) > Native speakers opinion? Sorry, I am not.  SignatureEnrico C >>Hi! >>today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > I like that sentence very well indeed! :) > This "well" is an adverb. But native speakers would probably use "very much" in this context. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan | > I like that sentence very well indeed! :) | This "well" is an adverb. But native speakers would probably | use "very much" in this context. I think usage has changed in the last few decades. Grandfather might say "that dress looks well on you" whereas most people today would say "that dress looks good on you". My feeling is "I feel good" could be making a moral statement (good | bad) whereas "I feel well" is more clearly health-related (well | ill , wellness | illness). Owain > | > I like that sentence very well indeed! :) > | This "well" is an adverb. But native speakers would probably [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > "that dress looks well on you" whereas most people today would say "that > dress looks good on you". That's still very common usage in dialects here in the NW of England. > My feeling is "I feel good" could be making a moral statement (good | > bad) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Owain 'How are you?' 'Good.' Is getting very common in BrE too. cheers DC >| > I like that sentence very well indeed! :) >| This "well" is an adverb. But native speakers would probably [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Owain I think what made the original poster's his senior teacher confused was the use of 'well' and 'good' in the example citied above. The usage of well in "That dress looks well on you" is throught to be wrong by many grammarians because 'well' when used as an adjective' means 'healty'. Therefore, 'well' should be replaced by 'good' as in "That dress looks good on you." Once you get so uptight about the misuse of 'well', one can over-react to any use of 'well' as in "I am well." IR |
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