TERCER CONDICIONAL

Se usa el tercer condicional para describir situaciones irreales en el pasado y los resultados imaginados. Tanto la situación como el resultado existen en el pasado; la situación no ocurrió por lo que el resultado es imposible:

    
1.    If I had woken up earlier, I wouldn’t have missed the train.     

ü "If I had woken up earlier"
 "Si me hubiera despertado más temprano" es la situación irreal.
ü "I wouldn´t have missed the train"
"No habría perdido el tren" es el resultado imaginado.

Ejemplos: 

If she hadn't got the job, she would have been very disappointed. 


If they had known about the problems with the trains, they would have driven.

Would I have got sick if I hadn’t eaten the fish? 

Forma
Se forma el tercer condicional con una cláusula condicional y una cláusula principal:

1)   Cláusula condicional: "if" + pasado perfecto
2) Cláusula principal: "would have" + participio pasado

El orden de las cláusulas no es importante: el significado es el mismo. 
Se usa una coma entre las dos cláusulas si ponemos la cláusula condicional antes de la oración principal:

Cláusula condicional
Cláusula principal
"If" + pasado perfecto + coma
"would have" + participio pasado
If I’d woken up earlier,
I wouldn’t have missed the train.
If she hadn’t got the job,
she would have been very disappointed.
If they had known about the problems with the trains,
they would have driven instead.
If I hadn’t eaten the fish,
would I have got sick?

No se usa coma si se pone la cláusula principal antes de la cláusula condicional: 
Cláusula principal
Cláusula condicional
"would have" + participio pasado
"if" + pasado perfecto
I wouldn’t have missed the train
if I had woken up earlier.
She would have been very disappointed
if she hadn’t got the job.
They would have driven
if they had known about the problems with the trains.
Would I have got sick
if I hadn’t eaten the fish?

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