The Third Conditional

We make the third conditional by using the past perfect after 'if' and then 'would have' and the past participle in the second part of the sentence:
Uses
1. To speak of events in the past, which had otherwise occurred, would have had other consequences. This is a hypothetical situation in the past. We are imagining what could have happened. If I had had enough money, I would have bought you a house
Estructure
1. Affirmative: If + Past Perfect + Subject + Would Have + Verb Participle
  1. Negative: If + Past Perfect + Subject + Wouldn't Have + Verb Participle
    1. Question: If + Past Perfect + Would +Subject + Have + Verb Participle + ?
Examples
1. -What would you have done if you had been in my shoes? /¿Qué hubieras hecho si te hubiera ocurrido a ti? -Yesterday she played the lottery and she did not win. If she had won the lottery, she would have booked holidays in the Caribbean. /Ayer ella jugó a la lotería y no ganó. Si ella hubiera ganado la lotería, hubiera reservado unas vacaciones en el Caribe. -If I had studied medicine he would have been a very good doctor./Si él hubiera estudiado medicina, hubiera sido un gran doctor.
The third conditional in English helps us to express conditions and their consequences in a hypothetical future and if the past had been otherwise.

Resource summary

	Created by gusacri about 9 years ago

	Copied by Ángel Sánchez about 3 years ago