"What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

[ahsanul.irfan]

"What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

"What you have done was too bad"
"What you have done was too much bad"

Is the first one incorrect? If it is incorrect then why?

 

[tedmc]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Sentence No.1 is not natural. When you say too bad, the question is, too bad for what?
I would say What you have done was very bad.

Sentence No.2 is wrong.

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

The first would be grammatical if it ended with ... what, do you think?

What do all sentences have to end with?

 

[ahsanul.irfan]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Can I say "What you have done was excessively bad"?

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Why haven't you answered my question in my last post?

 

[Tdol]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Can I say "What you have done was excessively bad"?

I wouldn't. What you did was bad works better for me.

 

[ahsanul.irfan]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

With a full stop.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Can I say "What you did was very bad"?

Excessively bad isn't natural.

And your tenses shifted incorrectly. You want one of these:

- What you did was very bad.

- What you have done is very bad.

 

[Tdol]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Why haven't you answered my question in my last post?

If something can be excessively bad, can it be nearly bad?

 

[jutfrank]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

I'm surprised members haven't mentioned the phrase too bad as it's used in the American way (I think of it as American, at least—we don't tend to use it much in the UK). I instantly assumed that's what the OP meant.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/too bad

 

[Tarheel]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

Can I say "What you have done was excessively bad"?

What do you think "excessively bad" means?

 

[emsr2d2]

Re: "What you have done was too bad" VS "What you have done was too much bad"

You would be better off choosing a word like "terrible" or "dreadful". I don't like "excessively bad". We have comparatives and superlatives for "bad", but we have better adjectives that express the idea of something being "very bad".