Conditional Sentences

Conditional Sentences

1. Third Conditional

   • Structure
     • If + past perfect, would/wouldn’t have + past participle
       • Would have + past participle if + past perfect.
   • Usage
     • The third conditional is used to express the past consequence of an unrealistic action or situation in the past. We often use the third conditional to express regrets – describing things we are sorry happened or didn’t happen.
   • Examples
     • If you had told me about the meeting, I would have come.
       • If you had told me about the meeting, I wouldn’t have missed it
         • I’d have come to the meeting if you’d told me about it.
           • I wouldn’t have missed the meeting if you’d told me about it.

2. Mixed Conditional

   • Examples
     • If I had worked harder at school, I would have a better job now.
       • I would have a better job now if I had worked harder at school.
         • If I wasn't afraid of spiders, I would have picked it up.
           • I would have picked it up if I wasn't afraid of spiders.
   • Usage
     • It refer to an unreal condition situated in the past and its probable outcome in the present. They express a situation that is contrary to reality both in the past and in the present moment.
       • This class of mixed conditional sentences refers to an unreal situation in the present and its probable (though unreal) outcome in the past.
   • Estructure
     • If + past perfect + present conditional
       • If + simple past perfect conditional

3. Differences

   • We use the third conditional to say what would have happened in the past.
   • In a conditional sentence, there is the possibility that the two propositions that compose it refer to different periods or times. The result is a mixed conditional sentence.

4. Webliography

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