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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about the type three conditionals.

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Let's get started.

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Remember that conditionals are sentences with two clauses a main clause and an if clause.

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Now conditionals saying that the action in the main clause can only take place if a certain condition

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in the if clause is fulfilled.

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Have a look at the example over here.

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If we don't hurry we will be late.

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Now this is a conditional sentence and it's used to state that the action in the main clause being late

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will take place if we don't hurry.

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Now there are five main types of conditionals in English.

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And amongst them are conditionals.

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Type Three or third conditionals.

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Now conditionals type three or third conditionals are used to describe past event that is different.

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What really happened.

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Note that these sentences are solely hypothetical.

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Thus there's always some implication of regret.

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Have a look at the example below.

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We had a book this trip we wouldn't have missed her graduation ceremony meaning that we wanted to be

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at her graduation ceremony but we missed it because we were on a trip somewhere else now make sure to

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use the past perfect tense in the if clause and would have.

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Plus the past participle in the main clause.

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Note that the order of the main and if clause is not fixed although when the if clause precedes the

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mean one.

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Make sure to use a coma.

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Have a look at the table below.

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Now the if clause of type 3 conditionals is formed by if plus past perfect main clause would have plus

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verb E D or the past participle.

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Have a look at the examples below.

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If we had bought that lottery ticket we would have won if Jake hadn't drunk then night he wouldn't have

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got into the car accidents.

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Note that both would and had can be contracted to apostrophe D.

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Remember that would never appears in the if clause.

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Have a look.

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The example over here.

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If I had known that I would have warned you this would be equal to if I'd known that I'd have warned

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you.