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THIRD CONDITIONAL

STRUCTURE

if + past perfect, ...would + have + past participle

We make the third conditional by using the past perfect after 'if' and then 'would have' and the past participle in the second part of the sentence:

It talks about the past. It's used to describe a situation that didn't happen, and to imagine the result of this situation.

If she had studied, she would have passed the exam but, really we know she didn't study and so she didn't pass

If I hadn't eaten so much, I wouldn't have felt sick but I did eat a lot, and so I did feel sick.

If we had taken a taxi, we wouldn't have missed the plane

She would have become a teacher if she had gone to university