How to Use the Third Conditional? English Grammar for Beginners

- hi everybody my name is Alicia welcome back to our weekly live stream this is our last livestream for 2018 thanks very much for joining us today we're going to look at a challenging grammar point today many of you have asked about this so we're finally going to talk about it live the third conditional the third conditional grammar point in English we're going to use lots of example sentences so I hope you participate in the chat a lot today so that we can learn and practice from your sentences that would be awesome I think Facebook and YouTube are working perfectly today yay so send a message when you come into the chat I see lots of you on YouTube hi everybody Arnaldo and Batista mark cyberguy Enrique Malik Liz Ahmed Raimundo savathun 31 Upson what Andy lots of people hi everybody I think Facebook is on the way I see the video I will marry your first on Facebook today hi everybody so please don't forget to hit the like button and share the video so other learners can find it we're going to start in about two minutes today's topic is the third conditional the third conditional so this is a tough grammar point but we use it a lot to like talk about possibilities in the past and the future hi again everybody good morning good evening good afternoon wherever you are in the world a couple of points I guess while we wait for others to join one quick thing I saw earlier today I tweeted about this earlier as well - there's a new compilation video on the YouTube channel if you have not seen this yet please check it out this is eight hours long I was really shocked to find this on the channel actually this is 8 hours of just the ask Alicia Q&A series with a focus on grammar points so today's lesson is about grammar but if you want to just like place and background or if you want to like just listen here and there throughout the day there's no an eight-hour video of like just some of the the videos in the ask Alicia series over the last year so please check this out you 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to this grammar so let's get started we have lots to do today let's begin over here over here this is a really important part I think for this lesson to understand why we use this grammar so the third conditional is used a lot to talk about like past possibility or even like present possibility but we use it as well to talk about regret so regret means something were sad about in the past something we were unhappy with in the past so let's take a look at this part so this is the first part one port part of a conditional sentence is the if clause so there are two kind of basic ways I want to look at how do we make the if Clause part we use for example we begin it with an if if plus your subject plus we can use here had or hadn't followed by the past participle form of a verb so I'll explain this part had and had it so this positive had here when we use a positive when we're making a positive statement this refers to an action that did not happen in the past this did not happen in the past so if you imagine this on a timeline where this point is now the present in the past I've marked this in blue with an X so this is a positive statement yes but this did not happen this is an unreal situation did not happen if however you use a negative here if you use hadn't if subject hadn't plus past participle verb this refers to something that happened this is true this is something that actually happened in the past so on this timeline I've marked this with a red checkmark to mean yes so this thing actually happened here so positive did not happen negative did happen this actually happened so please keep this in mind this might seem like opposite to what to what you think but this is an important point for this for this lesson so as I said we use this a lot to express regret because we want to change something about the past so let's look at a couple of example if clauses to kind of illustrate this point I'm gonna move down to this part now so let's go to the first example here the first example part is this if I had known if I had known for example if I had known you were here I would have brought you a coffee would be a long full third conditional statement so this part if I had known right here we're going to zoom in in just a second if I had known uses this positive had which I mentioned here so this positive had this means this did not happen this is an unreal situation so I did not know in other words but if I had known so known is the past participle form of the verb know if I had known if I had known so if I had known that means I did not know something in the past but I want to talk about the possibility if that had been different okay let's look at the next example if you had told me if you had told me here again I'm using a positive had my past participle form is told so tell the past participle form of tell is told if you had told me I could have helped you if you had told me I would have come for example one more if we had heard so I'm using a lot of this positive form if we had heard so here's past participle form is heard if we had heard if she had called so I have all of these in the positive form so these are all situations these are all things that did not happen in the past they're unreal not true unreal but let's compare this to one really common negative expression which is if I hadn't if I had it so this is the reduced form the contracted form if I had not if I had not made a mistake so made here ma de maid is the past participle form of make to make a mistake but we need to change it if I hadn't made a mistake something would have happened so I'm using the negative form had not according to this diagram then this means this is something that happened this happened so that means I made a mistake in the past but I want to say if I had not made that mistake so if this had not happened and then something else so this is how we make an if clause with this grammar so had or hadn't plus the past participle form of your bird this is the first part and maybe the most difficult part for many people to making this grammar so send me oh there's one example sentence on YouTube hi Rama if I had if you had told me about that new movie I would have come with you to watch it to watch it at the cinema nice one nice is clause there if you had told me no on Facebook if you had had told me had so had is passed like we're using this pad or hadn't had hadn't not to have in present had or haven't so this is for the if clause if Clause is one part of today's grammar so this is the first part of today's grammar point if clause if Clause part ma say hey if I hadn't done such a thing so do our past participle form of the verb do is done if I hadn't done such a thing or very naturally if I hadn't done that Rama nice yeah you fixed it if you had told me about that new movie earlier nice I would have come with you to watch it at the cinema great okay yeah please send lots of example sentences today I will try to check them all if I can Jr hey jr. nice question jr. on the YouTube chat has a great point actually he says I saw some people eliminating which means removing the word if and saying had I known learning another language was so important I would have started at an early age yes this had I known pattern sounds more formal today we're looking at a more conversational way of expressing this grammar but yes jr. you are correct it just sounds a bit more formal okay let's take a break so I'm going to take a break from our top grammar point there and talk about this week's special thing for everybody which is this some of you maybe have seen on the YouTube channel in the Facebook page our holiday specials this year there was a lot actually there was something like every day for nine days I think it was a lot but the team made one more day for the sale so please check this out so there's a maximum of 60% off these subscriptions on the website so that's like the premium and Premium Plus memberships on 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you haven't yet send some messages send your example sentences in the chat make sure to like and share the video too so other learners can find it we appreciate it many of you are sending examples so I will try to check gustavo on youtube hi if you had it turned off the oven the food would button if you hadn't turned off the oven the food would have been spoiled yeah no regrets there that's true nice one nice one if I had a big car ah that one is a slightly different conditional if I had a big car maybe I could have arrived to the airport at that time okay there's a lot there's a lot of examples if you had informed me ba on Facebook if you had informed informed is the past participle forum there okay I'll try to check your example sentences there's a lot thanks everybody let's move on though to the second part of today's lesson the second part of today's lesson is about the main clause so I said at the beginning of this lesson that to make a conditional statement we need two parts there the if clause here we are we need two things the if Clause and the main clause so we talked about how to make the if clause at the beginning of today's lesson over here now let's talk about the main clause so the third conditional can be difficult sometimes because the if Clause is unreal and the main Clause is unreal so we're talking about situations that are totally not true but we want to talk about possibility or we want to express regret or we want to talk about ways to change things or ways we wish we had changed things so let's take a look at some things that are very commonly used in the main clauses of these they are wood could and might these are very common main clauses I would have or I wouldn't have I could have or I couldn't have and I might have or I might not have so what is the difference a lot of you asked like is there a difference between wood and could yes there is a huge difference between wood and could so let's use an example sentence oh it's fine so let's use an example sentence like this I talked about this earlier if I had known for example let's use this part here if I had known so a simple if clause if I had known something I would have helped so would expresses an unreal situation but it's like saying will so if this work if this had been true this was not true I did not know but if I did if I had known I would have helped you so it's like saying your future action but like an alternate universe kind of so it's not a real action but you want to talk about your actions like how they would have been different in the past if I had known I would have helped this is what we use would for so this is a positive if I used a negative it means the opposite then something I had no plan to do but it's an unreal situation savvy couldn't has a great example in the YouTube chat your if Clause though if I had known know been there if I had known about the channel before I would have joined other live classes that's a perfect main Clause I would have joined other live classes classes nice one nice one yes I can't read your name on YouTube I'm going to go to good next so would not uses the negative form but we're using it to express like lack of a plan for something if I had known I would not have helped so that means like will not but for an unreal situation so it not true so yes let's go to could could so what's the difference so we talked about how would means like unreal situation and like a plan like in that unreal situation it's not true but if it were this is my plan this is what I would do or this is what I would not do that's my plan or not my plan could however could refers to possibility so only possibility this means there's no plan actually would is like a plan I have a plan for something I intend to do something I'm going to do something could doesn't have that feeling of a plan only possibility only possibility so if I had known I could have joined you if I had known I could have joined you that means there was possibility to join you like in this situation there was a possibility to join okay oh we have a question from Instagram if I had joined the class before I would have passed the TOEIC test oh cool thanks for reading Instagram from Joel does glue that's the first time ever that's super cool nice whoever said that an Instagram nice one nice one okay so I could have joined you this is only for possibility if I say I would have joined you here it means my plan like I my plan would be to join you in that situation so it did not happen but could only express it as possibility only possibility is could passed of can yes but that's a different grammar point for today's lesson junior nice I could have won if I had been there nice one son um other things ah yeah brick kid done on Facebook hi if I had known about the English class I could have learned here yeah I could have learned ah so here I don't have the verb here but we also need to use this past participle so I would have past participle so your past participle verb also needs to be used here I could have learned as well okay yeah I saw lots of you commenting about the livestream actually on the regular English Channel livestream someone wrote if the English 24/7 live streaming video hadn't great hadn't turned off yesterday I could have joined some chats in the live chat yeah maybe that'll be back I'm not in control of that great if I had studied I would have succeeded make it past hero day on YouTube I would have passed my exam great nice example let's move on to might then I might have been able to work with you is my example here I might have in this case been able to or I might have joined you it so might if is a little bit similar to could so could is very neutral its own it's like simple possibility only might is like saying there's a chance it's like a little higher than neutral I might have joined you I might have helped you it's like saying maybe kind of could is like super neutral it's just possibility might is like expressing that there's a chance a better chance than zero like 20% 30% chance in this unreal situation is might very polite no no might is just a neutral a neutral word it's not formal or informal really okay so let's take a look at one more and negative here so if I had known I wouldn't have left the office if I had known I wouldn't have left the office so here I did not know something but if I had I would not have left the office so this means I did I left the office but if I had known I would not have left the office so I would have changed my plan yes great examples that is correct self I guess we are using the past participle in both clauses here with the third conditional mm-hmm - so we're ending this this part this main Clause part with a past participle verb that is correct great okay um I don't see other examples yet so I'm going to take one more break and then I'm going to finish today's lesson with some examples that I hope you can use right away and I'm going to talk about some pronunciation points that a lot of you have asked about so let's do that let's take a break whew if you missed it earlier if you missed it earlier today the special that we have for this week if you missed it our team made a bunch of really exciting I think holiday deals on our website on the English class 101 website and they have it for one more day today so there's a maximum of 60 percent off the subscriptions on the website so there's like monthly and yearly options if you would like to get more study materials video and audio lessons and other tools to help with your studies please check this out so you can find the link for this if you're watching on youtube below the video the link is in the description not the chat and if you're watching on Facebook it's above the video watching on check out YouTube or Facebook so check that out we're going to finish today's lesson then by going to this last part down here so some common examples so I'm going to talk about some pronunciation points so if you're just joining thanks very much please do send your example sentences today and make sure to like and share the video too so others can find it ok let's look now at these common example sentences so I've created a few here it's a little hard to see maybe if you make your video big maybe you can see it a little bit more clearly I don't know so it's kind of small sorry my handwriting so I had lost this part let's look at this first example so here is my if clause let's read it first if I had known you were coming I would have bought more food so imagine there's a houseguest a surprise houseguest if I had known you were coming I would have bought more food so let's break this down then this if I had known you were coming this is my if clause if I had known you were coming so as we talked about we have our had my subject if I had known is my past participle verb you were this is another important point when you're using this unreal grammar you need to use you were not you was so please be careful a lot of people ask about using word and was if you were so if I had known you were coming here's my main Clause I would have bought more food I would have so here I'm using would have bot is my past participle form I'm using a comparative here to more food so more food than I bought actually so if I had known you were coming means I did not know you were coming but if I had this would have been my plan I would have bought more food so some pronunciation points here this part if I had known we reduce this actually in speech too if I'd for one if I had reduces to if I if I known and then this you work sounds kind of like you were you were sort of how it sounds so at native speed I would say if I'd known you were coming if I'd known you were coming that's how it sounds in native speed over here then I also make reductions in sound so I would have this is a really good pronunciation point actually if I had known you were coming I would have becomes Ida if I'd known you were coming Ida bought more food I'd have bought more food so this equals would and this up equals have I would have reduces to Ida I had a bought more food so if I'd known you were coming I'd a bought more food that's how a native speaker would say this sentence so this is a great pronunciation point to practice I think that I would reduces to ight and I would have Ida okay all right let's go to the next one if we had had more time we could have done better so this one if we had had more time here's my if clause my if clause if we had had this is correct yes there are two hats here why pad is the basic pad we use to create this grammar and this had is the past participle form of the verb have so I like I have time I have no time that expression I want to make it in this form if we had had more time that means we did not have enough time in other words if we had had more time we could have done better we could have done better so here I'm using could to express simple possibility we could have done better so again pronunciation points if we had had more time this if we had had reduces again if we'd had so my subject here is we this reduces to we'd if we'd had if we'd had more time if we'd had more time we could have done better so this could have in the same way as would have reduces to Ida we reduce could have - could coulda we could have done better so native speed would be if we'd had more time we could have done better we'd have more time we could have done better good alright let's go to the last one because time is going quickly so finally this one if I had studied so here's my past participle if I have studied harder so here I'm using a comparative form yeah this means if I had studied harder than I did so I don't think I studied very hard in other words if I had studied harder I probably would have passed the test this is a useful point right here if I studied harder I probably so this is modifying would have probably so there's a high chance that in this unreal situation I would have passed the test so in native speed if I had studied harder I probably would have passed the test this probably reduces to prolly prolly is what it sounds like we do not spell it prolly but it sounds like that I probably would have passed the test it probably would have passed the test okay so these are just a couple of examples that we can use I wanted to talk about more but there's no time so we'll finish with that so that is a quick but hopefully useful introduction to the third conditional a challenging grammar point I think we're gonna zoom back out - regular - regular view here to finish today's lesson if we up Eric's mega on YouTube if we if we had practiced more if we had practiced more or if we yeah I would say if we had practiced more we could have won the championship that would sound good what about the comma ah nice question comma has separates my if clause and my main clause I've separated so in this case if Clause first comma main clause so if is the if clause is acting as an introductory clause and so my personal preference is to put a comma after introductory clauses if your main Clause is first main clause then if clause you can remove it you can omit that one okay um other things if I had a party to go to I would not have I would not have been here if I had had a party to go to I would not have been here how's Jo say sorry Josue yeah nice one on Facebook that's great hmm let's see other points okay I see no other examples so we'll finish there for today so I hope that was helpful if you missed today's lesson please don't worry it was recorded so you can watch it on Facebook or on youtube so if you have other questions please send them in the chat I will try to check them and answer them somewhere else that's it for today so today is actually our last livestream of 2018 so thank you so much to everybody who joins us every week and sends comments and likes and shares we couldn't do this 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