Third Conditional

The Third Conditional is a structure used for talking about unreal situations in the past.

It’s used to describe a situation that didn’t happen, and to imagine the result of this situation.

Like the other conditionals, a third conditional sentence consists of two clauses, an “if” clause and a main clause:

• If you hadn’t stopped quickly, we would have crashed.
• I wouldn’t have gone to the party if you hadn’t persuaded me to go.
• If I’d studied harder, I probably would’ve passed the exam.

As you can notice we create 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.

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