{"id":1767,"date":"2017-01-21T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:29:43","slug":"third-conditional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/third-conditional\/","title":{"rendered":"Third conditional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study the tenses in the third conditional sentence given below.<\/p>\n<p>If I had been younger, I would have cried.<\/p>\n<p>Third conditional sentences are used to talk about imaginary or hypothetical situations.<\/p>\n<p>In the third conditional, we use a past perfect tense in the if-clause and would have + past participle in the main clause.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise<\/p>\n<p>Fill in each space with the proper form of the verb given in the brackets.<\/p>\n<p>1. If I had listened, I \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. (understand)<\/p>\n<p>2. If you had run, you \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 the bus. (catch)<\/p>\n<p>3. If they \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. the money, they would have gone by plane. (have)<\/p>\n<p>4. If you \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. (take) the tablets, your health would have improved.<\/p>\n<p>5. If she had listened to my advice, she \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. (not land) herself in this mess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. If I had listened, I <strong>would have understood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. If you had run, you <strong>would have caught<\/strong> the bus.<\/p>\n<p>3. If they<strong> had had<\/strong> the money, they would have gone by plane.<\/p>\n<p>4. If you <strong>had taken<\/strong> the tablets, your health <strong>would have improved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. If she had listened to my advice, she <strong>would not have landed<\/strong> herself in this mess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study the tenses in the third conditional sentence given below. If I had been younger, I would have cried. Third conditional sentences are used to talk about imaginary or hypothetical situations. In the third&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-third-conditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}