"She could not, I suggest, have been blamed had she elected not to return to the scene of such an ordeal."
(The Guardian.)
Is the sentence above the type 3 conditional?
Yes, in that it refers to a hypothetical or counterfactual past situation.
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Yes, in that it refers to a hypothetical or counterfactual past situation.