VOCABULARY

 

f I had known your reaction, I wouldn't have told you. 
I wouldn't have told you if I had known your reaction.

 

If you had bought a lottery ticket, you might have won.
 

• I would have bought the shoes if I hadn’t had to pay for the jacket.

• She would not have gone to the party if she had needed to work.

3rd Conditional

 As we have seen with the first conditional and second conditional, the third conditional can also be adapted to affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences. Remember to apply the formula: If + Past Simple + Subject + Would + Infinitive.

THIRD CONDITIONAL ENGLISH SPANISH

AFFIRMATIVE If I had listened to my mum's advice, I wouldn't be in this situation. 

NEGATIVE If I didn't fell asleep on the train, I would have not missed the stop. 

INTERROGATIVE Would you have gone to his wedding if he had invited you?

1. If I _had enough____ (would have enough/had enough) money, I _would have bought____ (would have bought/had out) the land.
2. If I _hadn’t overslept____ (had not overslept/would have not overslept) last night, I would have not missed_____ (had not missed/would have not missed) the train.

Present Unreal Conditional

 

The Present Unreal Conditional is used to talk about what you would generally do in imaginary situations.

 

A: What would you do if you won the lottery?
B: I would buy a house.
A: Where would you live if you moved to the U.S.?

B: I would live in New York.

INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES

 

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product or a new process for creating an object or a result. Whereas, discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful.

Its researches registered 1134 inventions in the variety of fields.
A chair is one of the best inventions ever made.

UNREAL CONDITIONALS

We use past unreal conditionals to talk about things in the past that were not true (but hypothetically could have been) and the results of what would have happened if that was the case. Simply put: it was possible, but it did not happen.

EXAMPLE 1       If I had known that I was going to be late, I would have called you.

• I did not know that I was going to be late.
• I did not call you.
• The reason I did not call is that I did not know I would be late.