Post #226

🔰Third Conditional 🔻We can use theThird Conditionalto talk about‘impossible’conditions, impossible because they are in the past and we cannot change what has happened. 🔹If I had worked harder at school, I would have got better grades. 🔹If I had had time, I would have gone to see him. But I didn’t have time. 🔹If we had bought that house, we would have had to rebuild the kitchen. 🔹If we had caught the earlier train, we would have got there on time but we were late. 🔻Notice that the main clause can contain‘would’, ‘could’or‘might. 🔹If I had seen him at the meeting, I would have asked him. (But he wasn’t there so I didn’t.) 🔹If I had seen him at the meeting, I could have asked him. ( But he wasn’t there so it wasn’t possible.) 🔹If I had seen him at the meeting, I might have asked him. (But I’m not sure. Perhaps if the opportunity had arisen.) 🔹If I had paid more attention in class, I would have understood the lesson. 🔻Also notice that sometimes the‘if clause’is implied rather than spoken. 🔹I’d have done it. (“if you had asked me but you didn’t.”) 🔹I wouldn’t have said that. (“if I’d been there.”) 🔹He wouldn’t have let him get away with that. (“if he had tried that with me.”) @EnglishGrammarSecrets