[1] On her way home from practice, Rebekka found a gold man’s watch. [2] She wasn’t sure what to do. [3] There was no name engra
ved on the back. [4] Looking at the gold links on the band, the watch seemed to Rebekka to be expensive. [5] She felt badly that someone had lost such a nice watch. What is the best revision of the troublesome modifier in sentence 5?
The best revision of the modifier in sentence 5 is to use bad instead of badly.
Explanation:
The adjective <em>bad </em>should be used instead of the adverb <em>badly</em> because <em>feel</em> is a copulative verb. A copulative verb shows no action, it links the subject to an adjective or to another noun. All the verbs denoting the five senses are linking verbs: taste, look, sound, feel, and smell. Therefore, the revised version of the sentence would be as follows: She felt bad that someone had lost such a nice watch.
The best revision of the modifier "badly" in the sentence 5 is "bad" : She felt <em>bad</em> that someone had lost such a nice watch. The word badly is an <em>adverb</em>, the word that modifies other words and verbs: <em>badly made furniture ; she was treated very badly. </em>In this sentence (modified)<em>, </em>the word<em> bad </em>is an<em> adjective </em>that follows a <em>linking verb</em> "<em>felt."</em>
<span>Soto build a central idea of his story in the excerpt b</span>y demonstrating how the way Carolyn’s family lives is familiar to him. With this, he lends support to the idea that people from different cultures can also share a culture.
