Conditional sentences that contain an “if” clause in the past
and end with the main clause in the present are generally expressing
imaginative or hypothetical conditions. In these conditional sentences, the
past perfect is used to refer to a past event. As a refresher, the past perfect
expresses the idea that something occurred before in another action. These
sentences can also show the reader that something happened before a specific
time in the past. Therefore, the form of the unreal conditional sentence in
this situation is as follows:
If + past perfect, would + have + past
participle
Consider the following sentence
If I had had time, I would have cleaned the
house.
The speaker in this sentence is informing their audience that
they did not have time to clean the house.
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