The third conditional or conditional 3 is formed like this:
if + past perfect , would have + past participle
• "What
would you
have done if it
had happened to you?"
• "If I
had known you were coming, I
would have combed my hair."
• "I
would have invited you to dinner if you
'd called me back."
* Remember not to put the would have in the if-clause:
• "I would have told you if I would have known the answer."
We use the third conditional to talk about past situations that didn't happen (when we imagine what would have happened if they had):
• "What
would we
have done if we
hadn't had a mobile phone with us?"
• "If she
had bought an iPhone, she
wouldn't have had any money left for her holiday."
• "I
would have gone to the concert if I
'd known about it."
The contraction 'd can mean would or had:
• "If I'd (I had) seen her, I'd (I would) have told her."
We use the same structure after wish:
• "I wish I hadn't eaten all that tiramisu. I felt so sick."
• "If I hadn't eaten all that tiramisu, I wouldn't have felt sick."
Now try the exercise on the next page.
Dagmar Taylor
English für Germans
COMMENTS
I think there is a mistake in the description, or I don't understand the sentence :-)
I would have invited you to dinner my hair if you'd called me back!