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3rd Conditional
Posted 26/04/2015
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Dear students, as promised, here is some information and exercises on the 3rd Conditional.
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 true.
Last week 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 was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition.
We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.
Look at some more examples in the tables below:
IF | condition | result |
past perfect | WOULD HAVE + past participle | |
If | I had seen Mary | I would have told her. |
If | Tara had been free yesterday | I would have invited her. |
If | they had not passed their exam | their teacher would have been sad. |
If | it had rained yesterday | would you have stayed at home? |
If | it had rained yesterday | what would you have done? |
result | IF | condition |
WOULD HAVE + past participle | past perfect | |
I would have told Mary | if | I had seen her. |
I would have invited Tara | if | she had been free yesterday. |
Their teacher would have been sad | if | they had not passed their exam. |
Would you have stayed at home | if | it had rained yesterday? |
What would you have done | if | it had rained yesterday? |
Source: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional_4.htm
Here are some links to online exercises:
Exercice 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
And REPHRASING exercises!
And More!
Good work!!!! 😉
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Dear students,
Here is the worksheet “Preparation for the Test”.
Do it and then bring your questions or doubt to class.
Good work!!! 🙂
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Hello, students,
As promised, here are the objectives for the test this week.
So, for this English test you should e able to:
I – Reading comprehension:
- read a text and understand its message by answering some questions;
II – Language Awareness:
A. Vocabulary skills:
- identify and distinguish the different Healthy and Unhealthy habits;
B. Grammar:
- distinguish the use of the Conditionals – 1st and 2nd;
- distinguish the regular and irregular verbs (past simple and past participle);
- use the present perfect (affirmative, negative and interrogative) .
III. Writing:
- write a small text using correction on the topic “Healthy Teenagers”;
This should be it!
Do the “Preparation for the Test Worksheet” in order to find out about your difficulties and weak points and then do some more exercises and study more.
Good work!
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Dear students,
For the mini-test on 31 May 2011 you should be able to:
I – Reading Comprehension:
– read and understand the message of a written text, doing tasks like true/false (find evidence), completing sentences, matching, filling in gaps, answering questions…
II – Language Awareness
– recognize vocabulary related to the Technology (home appliances and computers);
– use the 1st conditional;
– use the 2nd conditional;
– distinguish the countable and uncountable nouns;
– use the quantifiers much, many, some, any;
– use the indefinite article a/an.
Good study!!! ;