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What is Grammar?
English Grammar Terms
The 8 English Parts of
Speech
These are the words that you use to make a sentence.
There are only
8 types of word - and the most
important is the Verb!
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Verbs |
be, have, do, work |
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Nouns |
man, town, music |
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Adjectives |
a, the, 69, big |
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Adverbs |
loudly, well, often |
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Pronouns |
you, ours, some |
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Prepositions |
at, in, on, from |
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Conjunctions |
and, but, though |
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Interjections |
ah, dear, er, um |
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Quiz
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Quiz
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Quiz
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-ing Quiz
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Quiz
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Third Conditional:
no possibility
The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the
future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We
talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why
there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like
a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming true.
Last week you bought a lottery ticket. But you did not win.
:-(
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Condition |
Result |
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Past Perfect |
WOULD HAVE + Past Participle |
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I had won the lottery |
I would have bought a car. |
Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition.
You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular
condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect
tense to talk about the impossible past condition. We use WOULD HAVE + past
participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about
the third conditional is that both the condition and result are
impossible now.
Here are some more examples:
| IF |
condition |
result |
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past perfect |
WOULD HAVE + past participle |
| If |
I had seen Mary |
I would have told her. |
| If |
Tara had been free yesterday |
I would have invited her. |
| If |
they had not passed their exam |
their teacher would have been sad. |
| If |
it had rained yesterday |
would you have stayed at home? |
| If |
it had rained yesterday |
what would you have done? |
| result |
IF |
condition |
| WOULD HAVE + past participle |
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past perfect |
| I would have told Mary |
if |
I had seen her. |
| I would have invited Tara |
if |
she had been free yesterday. |
| Their teacher would have been sad |
if |
they had not passed their exam. |
| Would you have stayed at home |
if |
it had rained yesterday? |
| What would you have done |
if |
it had rained yesterday? |
| EnglishClub.com Tip |
| Sometimes, we use should
have, could have, might have instead of would have,
for example: If you had bought a lottery ticket, you might have
won. |
Zero Conditional
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