Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: G0134 – Grammar III
: 2005
: revisi 1
Pertemuan 17
Third Conditional
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa
akan mampu :
• Menyusun kalimat yang menggunakan
third dan mixed conditional.
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Outline Materi
• Third conditional
• Mixed conditional
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Third Conditional
• If + past perfect tense, + would have +
past participle
If you had left me, I would have died of a
broken heart.
• Would have + past participle (no comma)
+ if + past perfect tense
• I would have died of a broken heart if you
had left me.
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Third Conditional
• We use the third conditional to talk about past
events which cannot be changed, so we know
that the condition is impossible and its
consequence is imaginary:
• If you’d (had) left me, I’d (would) have died of
a broken heart. (but you didn’t leave me, so I
was all right)
• If you’d (had) been in love, nothing else would
have mattered. (but the speaker knows you
were not in love at that time, so other things
were important to you)
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Third Conditional
• Other modal verbs like might and could
are sometimes used instead of would in
second and third conditional sentences:
• I might love you if you bought me a
diamond ring.
• I could have loved you forever if you’d
(had) bought me a diamond ring.
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Mixed Conditionals
Mixed conditionals
• We sometimes meet sentences which
contain a mixture of second and third
conditionals because of their particular
context:
• If my boyfriend gave me diamonds like
that, I’d have married him by now. (= my
boyfriend does not give me diamonds like
that so I haven’t married him)
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Mixed Conditionals
• If the weather had been fine last week,
there would be roses in my garden. (=the
weather was bad last week so there are
no roses in my garden now)
• Lesley wouldn’t have missed the bus if
she were better organised. (=Lesley
missed the bus because she is a badly
organised person)
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