Badness, I feel.
Badness, feel I.
Bad, I feel.
May you grammatically use a predicative complement in front of feel (copular verb)?
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For unusual rhetorical effect, yes; otherwise no. ... And if you run across I feel badness, you may be assured that feel is not being used as a copular but as a verb of sensation or perception.– StoneyB on hiatusCommented Feb 19, 2016 at 22:40
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@StoneyB Many grammars consider verbs of sensation to be copula. In general, in English adjectives follow copular verbs. On the other hand, adverbs are movable, which is what I think is confusing the OP here.– Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_Commented Feb 20, 2016 at 0:38
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Feel certainly has a copular use (I feel bad, I feel sick), but with a noun complement (I feel badness, I feel sickness) the noun is pretty clearly a direct object, not a predicative.– StoneyB on hiatusCommented Feb 20, 2016 at 1:13
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Interesting. I guess, an object complement gets something done to it. So, badness gets felt? So, grammatically, you may feel badness in you, or not in you? I feel badness., and Badness I feel., grammatically, cannot get used having feel as a copula? I guess nouns don’t get used after copular verbs? I don’t think I can get a difference in meaning, of I feel nauseous., from I feel nausea..– saySayCommented Feb 20, 2016 at 2:04
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May this mean one can solely, grammatically, use Badness, feel I. as an imperative Badness, feel me.?– saySayCommented Feb 20, 2016 at 2:05
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