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It's incorrect. The correct phrase would be "If something seems too good to be true, it usually is." which can be extrapolated to "If something seems too good t
by geocrasher 4y ago
It's incorrect. The correct phrase would be "If something seems too good to be true, it usually is." which can be extrapolated to "If something seems too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true."
- rgoulter 4y agoThe reading of that phrase is "if something seems to good to be true, then it isn't [true]". It seems unhelpful that both "it is" and "it isn't" can be used to convey "it's not as good as it appears", though.
- wongarsu 4y agoThat is the intended reading, but it just seems wrong. The sentence parses to me to the components "[if] [something] [seems] [too good to be true], [it] [isn't]", so [isn't] has to apply to [too good to be true].