bad
part of speech
adjective (bad, worse, worst); adverb (bad — informal); noun (the bad)
meaning for a pupil
1) Not good; of low quality: "bad weather". tree →
2) Wrong or naughty: "bad behaviour". tree →
3) Harmful: "Smoking is bad for you." tree →
4) Serious or severe: "a bad cut". tree →
5) Rotten, spoiled: "The milk has gone bad." tree →
6) Feeling ill or sorry: "I feel bad about it." tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and safety: bad food can make you sick; bad weather can be dangerous; "bad touch" means touch that is not OK. In stories, "the bad guy" is the villain. Phrases: go bad, feel bad, too bad, not bad (quite good), bad at, bad for, bad luck.
examples
- Sugar is bad for your teeth. tree →
- We stayed in because of bad weather. tree →
- The milk smells bad. tree →
- I feel bad that I broke your pencil. tree →
- He is bad at catching. tree →
- That was a bad cut. tree →
- Hitting is bad behaviour. tree →
- Not bad for a first try! tree →
- Geppetto had a very bad temper. tree →
note
Comparison is irregular: bad, worse, worst. "Feel bad" (adjective), not "feel badly". "Badly" is the adverb: "He played badly." "Not bad" usually means good.
In the corpora
- Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.
- The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.
- A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.
- None of this makes them bad parents; it makes them people.
- "I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bad» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.