"We'll never be able to to do it"

[Kharkhun]

Is this sentence correct?

- "We'll never be able to to do it", said the man to nobody in particular. ( Can we use especially or specially here instead of "in particular" ?)

 

[Rover_KE]

You could say '...to nobody special' but that's far less natural than '...to nobody in particular'.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Is it natural to say "to no particular person"?

 

[bhaisahab]

Is it natural to say "to no particular person"?

Not really. The original is the natural way to say it.

 

[bigC]

I am not a teacher

"said the man to nobody in particular".

Does this sentence mean "the man said to everybody, not to any specific person".

 

[emsr2d2]

Does this sentence mean "the man said to everybody, not to any specific person".

Not necessarily. He could have said it aloud with no other people in sight.

 

[Raymott]

And there are one too many 'to's in your sentence and title.