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How do we create the third conditional?
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Bog'liq English 20 ball How do we create the third conditional?
To make a sentence in the third conditional, we use,
If + past perfect, would/wouldn’t have + past participle.
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.
As with all conditionals, you can also invert this structure:
Would have + past participle if + past perfect.
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.
The word would is often contracted to ‘d by native speakers. It’s also acceptable to use this in informal writing. And in speech it’s common to contract have to ‘ve in the third conditional. For example,
I’d’ve come to the meeting if you’d told me.
However, we can’t write this, even in an informal context. It’s useful to be awareof it though, so you can identify it when native speakers say it.
As an alternative to would, we can complete the second part of a third conditional sentence with could. For example,
Here are some other examples of the third conditional:
He’d have got the job if he hadn’t been so nervous in the interview.
What would you have done if you’d been me?
If it hadn’t been snowing heavily, we’d have carried on skiing.
The company would have survived if there hadn’t been a recession.
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