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12 Regrets
Grammar 1 Third conditional
A. Read the passage and answer the questions.
1. Why was the teacher happy that all the
students were in class? (If…)
2. What would have stopped Student B
interrupting Student A? (If…)
3. How did the teacher feel about the two
students arguing? (He said that if…)
C. Choose the correct option for the rules about the
Teacher I’m so happy to see you all in class. third conditional.
If you hadn’t come to school today,
you would have missed something – 1. To make the third conditional, we use modal verb
or someone – really exciting! + have + past participle and
a) the past simple in the if clause.
Student A Sir, you know we have good b) the past perfect in the if clause.
attendance. It’s unusual for any of
us to be absent, especially me. In my 2. We use the third conditional
last school – a) to talk about a hypothetical past.
b) to talk about a hypothetical future.
Student B Hold on. What’s the exciting thing
we would have missed if we’d been 3. In the third conditional,
absent? a) you can only use would.
b) you can use other verbs to express the result,
Student A I’m about to ask that question. If you such as might or should.
hadn’t interrupted me, when I had
finished what I was saying, I would
have asked the – D. Complete the sentences.
Student B There you go again! I wouldn’t have Five Inventors killed by their own inventions
cut you off if you hadn’t been going
on about your last school. 1. Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier died trying to cross the
English Channel in a hot air balloon in 1785. If his hot air
Student A And I wouldn’t have been annoyed balloon fire, it (not/
if you had said, “I’m sorry to interrupt catch, not/crash)
you.”
2. American Horace Lawson Hunley invented a submarine
Student B Look, we all know what you’re like. and in 1863, decided to help test the machine.
You’d still be telling us about your old Unfortunately, it sank, killing all eight people on board. If
school or your old hobbies or your old
something if I hadn’t stopped you. Hunley the crew, he
(not/join, not/die)
Teacher And if I hadn’t arranged for 3. In 1903, while trying his invention of a motorised bicycle,
something – or someone – really
exciting to visit you today, I’d have 24-year-old William Nelson died. If he
stayed home rather than listening to the motor to his bicycle, he longer.
you two arguing! (not/add, live)
4. In 1912, Franz Reichelt decided to test his prototype of a
B. Discuss with a partner. parachute by jumping from the Eiffel Tower. In previous
tests of the parachute, he had always used a dummy.
1. If electricity hadn’t been invented, If he a dummy on this test, Reichelt
would you have had something
different for breakfast this morning? to his death. (use, not/fall)
5. James Fuller Fixx wrote The Complete Book of Running.
2. How would your life have been
different if you had been born 200 When he was out jogging at the age of fifty-two,
years ago? he had a heart attack. If he , he
a heart attack. (not/run, not/have)
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