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Otakutyrant Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Can "couldn't be better" collocate with an if clause?

I have just wrote "By the way if you get interested in Hourly History from this review, it couldn't be better." However thereafter I found out "couldn't be better" seems always to be individual.

  

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The combination of "if" and "couldn't be better" in the same sentence is very rare. I found this one online: The tale of Romeoville couldn't be better if the Bard wrote it himself. You are using the if-clause a little differently in your sentence, and it doesn't work so well.

— CalifJim

  • The combination of "if" and "couldn't be better" in the same sentence is very rare.
  • I found this one online: The tale of Romeoville couldn't be better if the Bard wrote it himself.
  • You are using the if-clause a little differently in your sentence, and it doesn't work so well.
  • If I were you, I'd forget about trying to mix and if-clause with the expression "couldn't be better".
  • CJ
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The combination of "if" and "couldn't be better" in the same sentence is very rare. I found this one online:

The tale of Romeoville couldn't be better if the Bard wrote it himself.

You are using the if-clause a little differently in your sentence, and it doesn't work so well. If I were you, I'd forget about trying to mix and if-clause with the expression "couldn't be bette

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otakutyrantI have just wrote "By the way if you get interested in Hourly History from this review, it couldn't be better."

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Try "so much the better": "By the way if you get interested in Hourly History from this review, so much the better."

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