A past conditional sentence describe what is that was not true or didn't happen in the past, these sentence contain a clause beginning with if ... (states the imaginative condition) , and a main clause (explain the result of that condition).
If I had stayed, I would have gone crazy.
Past conditional sentences have an unusual verb structure:
Conditional clause Main clause
If + past perfect + (should/would/could/might) + have + past participle
Some Examples:
If I had owned a car, I would have driven to work. If i had seen her, I would have told Mary.
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