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Pertemuan 17Third Conditional

Matakuliah : G0134 – Grammar III

Tahun : 2005

Versi : revisi 1

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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)