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Conditionals

Mixed Conditionals

Mixed conditionals combine tenses from different conditional types to express more complex relationships between past and present. Third-to-second (past → present): if + past perfect, would + base verb. "If I had studied medicine, I would be a doctor now." Second-to-third (present → past): if + past simple, would have + past participle. "If she were more careful, she wouldn't have made that mistake."

Mixed Conditionals

Mixed conditionals combine tenses from different conditional types to express more complex relationships between past and present. Third-to-second (past → present): if + past perfect, would + base verb. "If I had studied medicine, I would be a doctor now." Second-to-third (present → past): if + past simple, would have + past participle. "If she were more careful, she wouldn't have made that mistake."

Practice

If he had moved to Japan in his twenties, he ___ fluent in Japanese by now.

If she were less impulsive, shemade such a rash decision.

Put the words in the correct order (mixed conditional):

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