Poll: They took the news ____.

They took the news ____.

bad
badly
Either could be used.

Votes: 318
Comments: 3
Added: January 2007

Comments:

Jenny - 27th January 2008 13:09
It is typically American to leave off the endings of words
 
Statuess - 2nd November 2009 09:42
Agreed, 'bad' is just lazy American speak.
 
George - 23rd August 2011 12:05
The sentence is very interesting. There's a new tendency of using adjectives instead of adverbs after nouns and verbs in American spoken language. So I guess that in a while the tendency will be borrowed by the Queen's English.
 
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