Miya's mother asked her to clean her

room yesterday

Listen to their today's

conversation
Miya : Ma, may I go out to play.
Mother : Did you clean your room?
Miya : No, Ma, If you had helped me, I would have cleaned it.

Mother : You lazy girl ! Why didn't you ask your brother
to help you?
Miya : If he had come early , I would have asked him.

Mother : I don't want any excuse. I won't allow you to go

out to play. Clean the room now itself.

Miya (aside) : If I had cleaned the room early,

I could have gone out to play.
Observe the statements once more
 If you had helped me, I would have cleaned it.

If he had come early , I would have asked him.

If I had cleaned the room early, I could have gone

out to play.

Are these conditions likely to happen? No

Why?
 If you had helped me, I would have cleaned it.

(Mother did not help her yesterday)

It happened yesterday.
We can't go back to yesterday and change that
situation now.
(WE DON'T HAVE TIME MACHINE!)

It is an Impossible Condition
 Impossible Condition

It is usual ly used to express a past situation about

something which did not happen in the past.
 If he had come early , I would have asked him.

He did not come early.

If I had cleaned the room early, I could have gone

out to play.
she did not clean the room early.

These are past situations which did not happen

in the past.
If you had helped me, I would have cleaned it.

Observe the tense form of the verbs.

Past Perfect Tense

If you had helped me, I would have cleaned it.

had + V3 would / could + have + V3

Past Perfect Tense

If Nidhi had won the match, she would
have been the world hero.
She did not win the match.
If you had studied the flute, you could have
participated in the competition.
He never studied flute .

If they had arrived early, they could have

joined us for the party.
They did not arrive early
Now you know what is an Impossible
Conditional Sentence, don't you?

Do the exercise without fail!