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1 If Vicki had won the lottery, she would have retired.

2  Past unreal conditionals have two clauses ( a clause is a groups of words that have a subject + verb)  The if clause  The result clause (main clause)  (if clause) If Amy had received treatment, (result clause) she might not have died.

3  How many clauses are found in a past unreal conditional statement?  What is a clause?  What do we call the clauses in a part unreal conditional statement?

4 If Clause (unreal condition) If + subject + past perfect, Result Clause (what would have happened) subject + would (not) have + past participle. could (not) have might (not) have (unreal condition) (what would have happened) If he hadn’t used laugh therapy, Norman would not have recovered.

5  Had + past participle of verb  Regular past participle verb + ed  ex.had talked  Irregular past participle examples  Gohad gone  Behad been  Havehad had  Takehad taken

6  How do we form the if clause?  How do we form the past perfect for regular verbs?  How do we form the past perfect for irregular verbs?  What three ways can we form the result clause?

7 Result Clause (what would have happened) Subject + would (not) have + past participle. could (not) have might (not) have If Clause (unreal condition) If + subject + past perfect (what would have happened) (unreal condition) Norman would not have recovered if he hadn’t used laugh therapy.

8  What does the if clause tell us?  What does the result clause tell us?  Identify the if clause and the result clause in this sentence.  I might have passed the quiz if I had studied.

9  Talk about past unreal, untrue, or imagined conditions and their results.  Both parts of the sentence describe events that are the opposite of what happened.  Conditional statement: Norman would not have recovered if He hadn’t used laugh therapy.  What really happened? He recovered. He used laugh therapy.

10  Why do we use the past unreal conditional?  What do both parts of the sentence describe?

11  Use would have in the result clause to mean regret  If Amy had received treatment, she wouldn’t have died.

12  What does would have describe in the result clause?

13  Use could have in the result clause to mean possibility  If her parents had believed in medicine, Amy could have lived.

14  What does could have describe in the result clause?

15  Use might have in the result clause to mean uncertainty about the result  If Norman hadn’t used laugh therapy, he might have died.

16  What does might have describe in the result clause?


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