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Third Conditional

The third conditional is used to express past consequences of unreal actions or situations, often reflecting regrets. It is formed using 'If + past perfect, would/wouldn’t have + past participle' and can be inverted. Examples illustrate its use in expressing missed opportunities and hypothetical scenarios.

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Third Conditional

The third conditional is used to express past consequences of unreal actions or situations, often reflecting regrets. It is formed using 'If + past perfect, would/wouldn’t have + past participle' and can be inverted. Examples illustrate its use in expressing missed opportunities and hypothetical scenarios.

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21st, November

Third conditional

The third conditional is used to express the past consequence of an unrealistic


action or situation in the past.

For example,

 If he had studied harder, he would have passed the exam.


The first action (studying hard) did not happen. But in the case that he
happened, the consequence was passing the exam. The third conditional is
very similar to the second conditional. But while the second conditional refers to
something unrealistic now or in the future, the third conditional refers to
something unrealistic in the past.

We often use the third conditional to express regrets – describing things we are
sorry happened or didn’t happen. For example,

 If my alarm had gone off, I wouldn’t have been late to work.


 If there hadn’t been so much traffic we wouldn’t have missed our
flight.

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
1-Complete the sentences with the third conditional form of the verbs in
brackets.
1 If Sarah had put (put) the ring on her finger,it wouldn’t have been (not be) in
her purse.
2 If it ___ (not be) in her purse, she ___ (not pick) it up with the coins.
3 Billy ___ (feel) guilty if he ___ (sell) the ring.
4 If Sarah ___ (not go) back to Billy, what ___ (he/do)?
5 She ___ (be) very upset if she ___ (not get) the ring back.
6 If Billy ___ (not be) honest, he ___ (not become) famous.

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