Past Perfect Conditional Statements
Prior Lesson In this post we come to learn about ‘past perfect conditional statements’ and usage of ‘unless’ in conditional statements. We use the ‘past perfect conditional statements’ only for past tense cases. In one past of the sentence we use ‘future in the past’ auxiliaries like would, have, ought to have, etc., and any past perfect or past perfect continuous form of verb in the other as shown in the following examples. 1. Wouldn’t I have gone to the spot if you had told me earlier? 2. If the teacher had not guided me, I couldn’t have come in this position. 3. The doctor might not have stumbled upon this medicine if his patients had not been complaining about the ever increasing temperature. 4. The actors ought to have reported for shooting early this morning if the film Director had been reminding them about it for 2 days. 5. I could have killed that snake if I had had a stick in my hand. 6. You could have borrowed your frie...