English conditionals don’t have to be confusing. In this lesson, we clearly explain the zero, first, second, and third ...

We use the third conditional to talk about imagined past events: things that might have happened in the past, but didn’t happen. She wouldn’t have become ill if she’d taken the medicine. It would have ...

The most common mixed conditional combination is when we have a third conditional in the if-clause (if + past perfect) followed by a second conditional (would + infinitive) in the main clause. To ...