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    If you had warned me, I would not have told your father about that party. The past perfect simple tense is used to go further back in time when already talking about the past. It makes clear something had already happened at the time being discussed.

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    If you had warned me, I would not have told your father about that party. The past perfect simple tense is used to go further back in time when already talking about the past. It makes clear something had already happened at the time being discussed.

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    Third Conditional

    Uploaded by

    Siobhan Connolly
    If you had warned me, I would not have told your father about that party. The past perfect simple tense is used to go further back in time when already talking about the past. It makes clear something had already happened at the time being discussed.

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    Third conditional

    a. Nature: unreal Time: Past (so we are talking about a situation that was not so in the past.) e.g. If you had warned me, I would not have told your father about that party.(But you didn't, and I have).
    The past perfect simple tense is used to go further back in time when we are already talking about the past. It can make it clear that something had already happened at the time we are talking about.

    Past Perfect Simple Timeline

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