When do you use"badly" as very much?
I was wondering if you use " badly' with many verbs meaning ' very much , or just with a few of them.

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When do you use"badly" as very much?
I was wondering if you use " badly' with many verbs meaning ' very much , or just with a few of them.

Thanks

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Here is a screenshot from SKELL -- an online tool (based on corpus data) where you check for collocations for words like this.

You can also look for example sentences, and other patterns of usage.

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Hi Emarbe,
We use "badly" to emphasise on the seriousness of an action. It has a negative connotation. Yes, it can be used with some verbs.
Example: .... miss you badly, .... badly burnt, ..... behaved badly.

On the other hand, we use "very much" to mean that something is happening to a great extent. 
Example: I miss you very much, I would very much like to attend the concert, Thank you very much, ... enjoyed ourselves very much.

Not every verb can go with "badly" or "very much". For example, we cannot say: .... rained badly (rained heavily, ..... apologised very much (though we can say thank you very much). Some words naturally collocate in English.

Hope this helps.
Cheers, Lance

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"Badly" can mean "in a unsatisfactory or inadequate way" or "to a great or serious extent." I think you're talking about the use of "badly to mean "to a great extent" -
- I badly need a haircut.
- Joe very badly wants a new car.
- I have got to get new shoes very badly.

I think "badly" could be used this way with any verb as long as the result makes sense and means what is intended. But the only verbs I can think of that work are those meaning things like "want, need, must, desire, have to..."

With action verbs, "I slept/ran/worked/sang very badly" means that those action were poorly performed, not that they occurred to some great degree.

With some sentence structures, the meaning is ambiguous:
- Evelyn needs to learn to speak Russian badly. 
(But Evelyn already speaks Russian badly/poorly. She badly needs to learn to speak Russian well.)

And with some verbs, it just doesn't sound right:
- I love you very badly.

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No. Badly means "in an unsatisfactory, inadequate, or unsuccessful way." or "to a great or SERIOUS degree". 
Very Much is used (it's actually English slang) "to a great degree or extent" 
They both mean somewhat the same, but not really. :D