PAST UNREAL CONDITIONALS

Past unreal conditionals

3rd conditional

What elements do you need to write a negative sentence of past unreal conditionals?

What is it used for?

Is used to talk about hypothetical or unreal situationes in the past.

Start with IF followed by the past perfect tense (had + not + past particple) in the IF clause

Example

What elements do you need to write an affirmative sentence of past unreal conditionals?

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Auxiliary verb + subject + have + past participle of the verb + main clause

If + past perfect, subject + would + have + verb in past participle + C

Example

Example

Interrogative: If you had studied harder, would you have passed the exam?

Negative: If we had not missed the bus, we would not have been late

Affirmative: If I had studied harder, I would have passed the exam.