If I had taken my medicine, I would not have felt sick.
If I had studied for the test, I would have gotten a good grade.
If I had taught a different lesson, then you would have learned something else.
And not the 3rd conditional, which is what we're going to talk about coming right up.
Welcome to today's lesson which is all about the 3rd conditional.
We're going to talk about the 3rd conditional.
And we are also going to practice -
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE - the 3rd conditional.
And I'm going to tell you how to use it, and when
to use it, and well...why we use it.
Which is where I want to begin.
So, why do we even use the 3rd conditional?
Well, we use it to talk about the past.
And it is an unreal situation because it did not happen.
We cannot change the past, so this is not possible.
And we're basically just thinking about some event
or situation, and we're imagining how things would have been different.
Now remember, when we're talking about conditionals these are "if" statements.
And they're made up of two parts, which is a condition and a result.
The condition, which is our "if" clause, is going to have a subject and a verb.
And in this case, with the 3rd conditional, the condition
is talking about the event that we're thinking about in the past.
So for example, I could say...
Now look at the grammar here.
In this clause, in our "if" statement, we are going
to use the past perfect.
As I said before, this is an unreal situation
because...well...Do I have a car?
No.
I'm just thinking about this situation.
If I had a car...
Now, what would be the result if I had a car.
I could say...
Now pay attention to the grammar in this clause as well.
It also has a subject and a verb, but the grammar
that we're going to use is: would + have + the past participle.
Now my subject is "I" and the verb is "take," but the past participle of take is "taken."
So I would say...
That is what I'm imagining would have happened.
So when we're using the 3rd conditional, we're going to follow this structure.
Did I buy a car?
No.
Did I take a road trip?
No.
This is what I would have done if I had bought a car.
But...I didn't buy a car, so I didn't take a road trip.
It didn't happen.
Let's look at a few more examples.
And for these I will give you the condition first and then the result.
And please, please, please, please pay close attention to the grammar that were using.
So again, this is an unreal situation because
well we did feed the squirrels, and they don't look hungry.
Again, this is a situation that did not happen
because he did not type his essay yesterday.
But we didn't see a shark.
It didn't happen.
And we're just imagining, well...What would have happened?
Now keep in mind the punctuation.
If the condition comes before the result then we need a
comma to separate the two clauses.
But if we switch these, and the result comes before
the condition, then there is no comma needed.
Let's see some more examples on how the
3rd conditional is used in different situations.
Now are you ready for the big moment?
Because it is time to practice using the 3rd conditional.
So what I want you to do is practice using the 3rd conditional in the comments.
And I want you to give us an example from your life.
So think about your life.
Think about an event in the past that did not happen.
Now think, if it had happened, what would have been the result.
So I want you to write us a sentence using the 3rd conditional.
And you can use this right here to help you out as a bit of a starting point.
And I would also encourage all of you to read
each other's comments because that gives you an idea
as to how we can use the 3rd conditional.
And, you know, help us learn a little bit about each other.
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