Conditional perfect
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Conditional perfect is the conditional's composed form. It is a relative grammatical tense, whose function is to express a future action, that is connected with a fact, that it occurred in the past, considered the starting point. The difference from the conditional tense is that the action is presented as finished in the present. As with the conditional tense, the action is hypothetical.
This grammatical tense must be used in an independent clause before a dependent clause of conditional, past subjunctive or pluperfect subjunctive. Also we can make use of this tense to express any probability in the past. It is equal with the pluperfect subjunctive.
Examples:
- You would have got more money, if you had worked harder.
- He would have approved the test, if he studied.
- We would have arrived earlier, if we ran faster.
[edit] Standard conjugation
Subject + Would + Have + Past participle of the verb.
| know | eat | |
|---|---|---|
| I | would have known | would have eaten |
| You | would have known | would have eaten |
| He/She/It | would have known | would have eaten |
| We | would have known | would have eaten |
| They | would have known | would have eaten |
