Conditional Perfect

Conditional Perfect
Affirmative	He would have written.
Negative	He would not have written.
Interrogative	Would he have written?
Form	would + have + past participle (past participle of regular verbs: verb + ed | Past participle of irregular verbs: forms differ and should be learned by heart
Uses	action that might have taken place in the past

Conditional Perfect

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Conditional perfect is an English grammatical tense. It relates an action that someone would have done.

Form

would + have + past participle

Affirmative

I would have traveled around the world.

Interrogative

Would you have traveled around the world?

Negative

I wouldn't have stayed in my hometown.

Use

• Conditional perfect is used for something that might have happened in the past.
• It is also used in the main clause of conditional sentences type in type III.

Examples

• She would have met him if she had come earlier.
• You would have got more money, if you had worked harder.
• He would have passed the test, if he had studied.
• We would have arrived on time, if we had run faster.