Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Third Conditional

(Alternative ending to "Some Like it Hot")

Statement of Form
If + past perfect, would + have + past perfect

Students need to know
We're talking about the past, and speculating: the events described didn't happen, but we’re imagining they did. We often use this to talk about:

regrets...

"If I'd known there was a civil war going on, I wouldn't have booked those two weeks in the Central African Republic.”