badly follow-up question

[navi]

1-The house in which I am living is built badly.
2-The house in which I am living is badly built.

Is there a difference between these two sentences?

 

[Mtundu]

The second sentence sounds more natural to me

 

[Lexiphile]

I don't think there is a difference. Unlike the bombing in the earlier thread, the result with building is the same whether it is done with insufficient skill (as in bombed badly) or the result is bad (as in badly bombed).

That said, I would normally use sentence 2 simply because it rolls more easily off the tongue.

 

[Phil-Olly]

Interesting, though, to ponder the difference between:

This house badly needs painted

and

This house needs painted badly

(although I can't think of any real situation where you would use the second one!)

- Phil

 

[Sylentia]

Interesting, though, to ponder the difference between:

This house badly needs painted

and

This house needs painted badly

(although I can't think of any real situation where you would use the second one!)

- Phil

Both your sentences are grammatically incorrect.

Either use: This house badly needs to be painted.
or
This house badly needs paint.

The second one would be: This house needs to be painted badly.
or
This house needs paint badly.

 

[Lexiphile]

Both your sentences are grammatically incorrect.

Either use: This house badly needs to be painted.
or
This house badly needs paint.

The second one would be: This house needs to be painted badly.
or
This house needs paint badly.

That's all very true, Sylentia, but being a resident of the British Isles, Phil would probably have prefered
This house badly needs painting
or
This house needs painting badly.

And unlike Phil, I can immagine someone saying the latter -- probably slowly paced, with each word stressed and an exclamation point at the end. Even so, it might provoke some strange looks.
Lexi