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Third Conditional - Trzeci warunek

Third Conditional - trzeci warunek

An accident - czytanka z wykorzystaniem trzeciego warunku

    George had a car accident last Friday. He spent a week in hospital and now he is lying in bed at home. His best friend Peter has just come.

    Peter: Hi, George. What has happened to you? I’ve tried to find you last week!

    George: Hi, I’ve just come back from hospital. As you can see my leg is broken and generally, I don’t feel very well. The doctor said I’d had a concussion.

    Peter: But how...

    George: I’ve had a car accident.

    Peter: Oh no, how many times have I told you not to drive so fast?! I’m pretty sure that if you had driven slowly, you wouldn’t have had an accident!

    George: You are wrong! I didn’t exceed the speed limit! And I drove carefully!

    Peter: If you’d driven carefully, this wouldn’t have happened!

    George: But I did! I was passing the petrol station when the other car suddenly appeared in front of me! I had hardly any time to push the brakes! If it hadn’t been that driver’s fault, we wouldn’t have had the accident!

    Peter: Right, calm down now and take a rest. We’ll talk about it later. 
     

Trzeciego okresu warunkowego używamy, gdy mówimy o przeszłości, czyli o sytuacjach, w których nie można już nic zmienić. Zastanawiamy się, co by było, gdyby w przeszłości został spełniony pewien warunek.

If +Past Perfect + would+have+past participle 

np. If it had been warm last Sunday, I would have gone to the beach.

      They would have helped you yesterday if you had asked them. 

 

Exercise: 

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense: 

  1. If I (be) ................................ more careful during that meeting, I (not, make) ....................................... such a big mistake.
  2. She (come) ............................................. to dinner yesterday if we (invite) ................................................ her.
  3. If he (win) ................................ the competition last Saturday, he (have) ....................................... a party.
  4. If you (tell)....................................... earlier, I (understand) .................................
  5. We (not, get) ............................................ lost if we (take) .........................................

 

    Key:

    1. had been, would not have made 2. would have come, had invited 3. had won, would have had 4. had told, would have understood 5. would not have got, had taken