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The Ultimate Guide to the Third Conditional: How to Say "I Wish I Had Known" with If I had known...
"I wish I had brought an umbrella," "If I had studied that day, I would have done well on the test"—these regrets and hypotheses about the past are expressed in English using the third conditional. This article teaches you the If + had p.p., would have p.p. sentence pattern and how it links with wish structures, complete with a summary table of the three conditional types so you can understand it at a glance and start speaking it right away.
GrammarThird ConditionalConditionalsSubjunctive