talkalot intermediate book 1 third conditional

Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms Third Conditional = different past Time of action: Past.. To describe hypothetical actions that didn’t happen in the pas

Talk a Lot

Intermediate Book 1

Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms

Third Conditional = different past

Time of action: Past

When do we

need to use it?

To describe hypothetical actions (that didn’t happen) in the past:

- If I’d arrived a few minutes earlier, I would’ve caught the bus

To express regrets and sorrow for having done something:

- If I hadn’t called my manager a fat pig, I could have kept my job

Or to accuse somebody over something:

- If you’d worked harder at school, you could’ve been a doctor by now!

How is it formed? 1st clause: if + past perfect

2nd clause: would/could/might + have + past participle

Contractions in

spoken English:

I would have Ö I’d’ve L~fKÇ]îL= or I woulda L]KïrKÇ]L=

She could have Ö She could’ve Lp]KârKÇ]îL or She coulda Lp]KârKÇ]L

could / should / might = no contractions possible

Examples:

Positive Form:

Negative Form:

Question Form:

Answers:

Ifyou’dbooked before the twelfth, you could’ve saved fifteen percent

Ifyouhadn’tbooked before the twelfth, you couldn’t have saved…

If ’dbooked before the twelfth, could I have saved…?

Yes, you could (have) / No, you couldn’t (have)

Passive form: If the room hadbeenbooked before the twelfth, you could’ve…

Used with

state verbs?

Yes, e.g If I’d remembered to post that letter, you would have got it

Tips: • There is no chance of this action happening – it’s impossible

• Sometimes the “if” clause is not spoken, but rather implied by

the speaker: I would’ve got you some tickets for the concert.

[i.e “If you had asked me to, but you didn’t.”]

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