Third conditional

Third conditional

1. It uses to

   • Talk about imaginary situations in the past
     • If you hadn't been looking at your phone, you wouldn't have burnt my toast
   • Talk about repentance
     • If I had known the trains were cancelled , I would have taken a bus

2. Structure

   • Condition, Result
     • Condition
       • If + subject + past perfect,
     • Result
       • Subject + would + past participle verb
       • With have
         • Subject + would have + past participle
     • For negative, just is enough change the had and would for hadn't and wouldn't
     • Example
       • With would have
         • If I had known the trains were cancelled , I would have taken a bus
       • Negative
         • If Abid hadn't gone to university, he wouldn't have met his wife
       • If I had worked harder, I would have got better grades

3. Pronunciation

   • I had and would are shortened
     • I'd
   • I would have are shortened
     • I'd've
   • Would not have are shortened
     • Wouldn't've