Painful vs painfully.

[towcats1]

It's painful. It's painful when someone we care about betrays us.
It's painfully. It's painfully when someone we care about betrays us.

Is the second sentence correct?

 

[Rover_KE]

No.

 

[andrewg927]

"Painful" is an adjective. It goes after "to be." You only use "painfully" (an adverb) to accompany a verb. Ex. It hit me painfully.

 

[teechar]

You only use "painfully" (an adverb) to [STRIKE]accompany[/STRIKE] modify a verb. [STRIKE]Ex.[/STRIKE] For example, it hit me painfully.

That's not entirely correct. An adverb can also modify an adjective.

That was a painfully slow journey.