Conditional tenses Having trouble please help

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Could you please tell me if the following conditional sentences are correct?

1 If i was going to work I would've killed myself.
2 Even if I had forgotten my keys, I wouldn't have gone back to get them.
3 If I had to take the subway every morning let alone every night, I would kill myself.

Which of these are correct and what's the difference?

1 If I had to leave, I wouldn't be happy.
2 If I had had to leave I wouldn't have been happy.
3 Had I to leave, I wouldn't be happy.
4 Had I had to leave, I wouldn't have been happy.

What's the difference between the 2 following sentences and does number 1 make sense ?

1 Had I had to have left, I would have been mad.
2 Had I had to leave, I would have been mad.

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Alc24 · Accepted Answer

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Alc24 · Answer

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Rinoceronte · Answer

Actually, all the examples you gave make sense. Usually, it's thought that conditional sentences with a realizable condition are formed like this:
Past Simple (dependent clause) + Future-in-the-Past (main clause)
while sentences with an irrealizable condition (for example, if you refer both your actions to yesterday) are formed like this:
Past Perfect (dependent clause) + Future-Perfect-in-the-Past (main clause)

But the problem of English (insoluble, to be frank) is that Perfect tenses are the only tool to form the Perfect Aspect (the existance of which the English people are unaware of). Hence, even in realizable conditional you may use Future-Perfect-in-the-Past if you need to emphasize the perfectness of your action. Because otherwise (Future-in-the-Past) your main clause action may be perceived ambiguously: either as a resultless proccess or as a completed action with a result.

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