THIRD CONDITIONAL

THIRD CONDITIONAL

1. Main use of the 3rd conditional

   • Talk about imaginary situations in the past and an imaginary result, things we wish we´d done differently
     • If + subject+ past perfect,+ subject + would have + past participle.
       • "If I had known the trains were cancelled, I would have taken a bus"
       • You can change the order of the two parts, the meaning stays the same
       • Negative form: hadn´t/wouldn´t
       • Short form: I had= I´d, I would have= I´d´ve