" 'We couldn't have possibly get lost. It was a dense city.'

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The grammar is passable except that 'get' should read 'got'. The adverb is awkwardly placed ('couldn't possibly have'), and I don't understand 'dense' and its relationship to ease of navigation.
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"We couldn't possibly have got lost. It was a dense city."

"couldn't have possibly" is something that native speakers say, but to me it's better as "couldn't possibly have".

The above sentence is grammatical but it makes little sense to me. If anything, you're arguably more likely to get lost in a "dense" city (where there are lots of narrow little streets, for exa

Thanks for replying, MM and Mr Wordy.

I must have used the wrong word. I wanted to say that we could not possibly have got lost because the city was full of skyscrapers and tall builidings that there was civilisation anywhere you went.

Thanks again.

PBF

I was wondering whether it should have been "gotten" in American English. We couldn't have gotten lost. Hmm.

KooyeenWe couldn't have gotten lost. Hmm.

gotten is certainly more American, but both are acceptable in the U.S.

CJ