General English Level 6 Version 2.1 © 2004 acl Pty Ltd GELEV6 Unit 03 Topic 02.doc To talk about the imaginary or unlikely situation, we use if + past perfect. To describe the probable result, we use would/wouldn't have + past participle. We separate the two clauses with a comma. Bert says: Bert: If I had studied harder at school, I could have done law. (Bert didn't study hard at school, so he didn't study law.) We can also use could have, may have and might have if the result is less certain. Look had studied harder, I could have been a professor. I had been born rich, I would have inherited a lot of money. If he had married, he wouldn't have travelled as much. Examples Listen to the examples. 1. If I had worked harder, I might have saved a lot of money by now. 2. If I had stayed at school longer, I might have a better job now. 3. If I had known about the other job, I wouldn't have taken this job. 4. If he had seen you at the play, he would have said hello.  PRACTICE 05 The third conditional 1. Look at the pictures on the left. 2. Look at the pictures on the right. 3. Look at the example. 4. Make sentences from the pictures using the third conditional. study hard doctor Example: If I had studied harder, I might have been a doctor. 73