Most adjectives that describes the perceived quality of an action carried out by someone, or their state of being, correspond to identical adverbs. Examples include such adjectives as ‘fine’, ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘great’, ‘fantastic’, ‘horrible’, ‘okay’, etc.

I am doing great / I am doing greatly
He plays okay / He plays niceaily
It works fine / It works finely He’s got bad / He’s got badly Many verbs

have adverbial counterparts, whether formed by regular -ly derivation or otherwise, that are not identical to their adjectival forms. What are mandatorily used when describing degree/manner, rather than judging quality : Wages

have greatly increased This
story is fantastically boring That
tap is leaking badly (Some

dialects would be okay with using an adjective in the last example, but as far as I know, “Wages have great increased” is ungrammatical in every dialect of English, so the order of the constituents also plays a role here) In

the case of ‘good/well’, there is an additional problem that ‘ I’m saying i’m doing good, or I’m really well, despite the fact that I’m wrong. I fail to realise that ‘By Good’ is an adjective with which we can compare and contrast etc. Why take quality over quantity largely? I am doing good / I am doing well are both equally valid, both when

describing one’s current state of health (quality) and when

answering a question on how one is getting along with a task (degree/manner).

Is feeling, or doing act as copular verbs when used this way? What is the truth in saying “I am much”? See http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/copula-verb.html. Can

you

use “Doing” as a copula? How are you

doing?

As for your typical SE USA speaking “good” refers to “I’m doing good”. Why

is the formal “well” response more familiar to you than “well”, and that is “I am doing well”. What

is a columifer in a non-copula? What makes it non-copula?

Can you say “I’m doing great”?

If you could sell yourself because other people would

look at you like you were funny?