THIRD CONDITIONAL: NO POSSIBILITY

THIRD CONDITIONAL: NO POSSIBILITY

the first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past we talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. that is why there is no possibility for this condition. the third conditional is also like a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming tru last weel.you bought a lottery ticket but you did not win.

condition result

past perfect WOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

if i had won the lottery i would have bought a car.

notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. you did not win the lottery. so the condition wasnot true. ad that particularcondition can never be true because it is finished. we use the past perfect tense to talk about theimpossible past condition . we use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. the important thing aboutthe third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.

sometimes, we use should have, could have, and might have instead of would have, fir example; if you had bought a lottery ticket, you might have won.

look at some more examples in the tables below.

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