How can I use "couldn't have pp" to rewrite the two sentences without changing the meanings?
1. If I had seen him smile over the red ruins of Rhaegar’s children, no army on this earth _could have stopped_ me from killing him.
2. He erupted from the ashes and timbers, his body wreathed in flame and rent with injuries that no mortal man _could have survived_.
How can I use "couldn't have pp" to rewrite the two sentences without changing the meanings?
Thank you.pp = past participleAnd I have another sentence.
3. No knight in the Seven Kingdoms could have stood against him at his full strength, with no chains to hamper him.
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You can't really, not without making a strange and clumsy sentence. The subjects are negative - no army, no mortal man, no knight - and, as you know, English does not take double negatives. The first example could be passive voice - I couldn't have been stopped from killing him by any army ... - but it's very clumsy. Why do you want to do this, btw?
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I'm not sure why would you need such a thing, but maybe something like this:
1. If I had seen him smile over the red ruins of Rhaegar’s children, any army on this earth couldn't have stopped me from killing him.
2. He erupted from the ashes and timbers, his body wreathed in flame and rent with injuries that any mortal man couldn't have survived.
3. Any knight in the Seven Kingdoms couldn't have stood against him at his full strength, with any chains to hamper him.
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pp = past participle
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pp ?
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