Perfect Continuous Conditional

Muoto

3. tyypin konditionaalilauseissa voidaan käyttää preesenskonditionaalin perfektimuotoa.

If-lause (ehto) Päälause (lopputulos)
If + pluskvamperfekti perfect continuous conditional
If this thing had happened that thing would have been happening.

Funktio

The perfect continuous conditional -muotoa voidaan käyttää 3. tyypin konditionaalilauseissa. Se viittaa if-lauseen toiminnan epätäyttyneeseen lopputulokseen, ja viittaa tämän tuloksen olevan päättymätöntä toimintaa tai yhä jatkuvaa toimintaa.

Esimerkkejä
  • If the weather had been better (mutta se ei ollut), I'd have been sitting in the garden when he arrived (mutta en ollut).
  • If she hadn't got a job in London (mutta hän sai), she would have been working in Paris (mutta ei nyt olekaan).
  • If I had had a ball I would have been playing football.
  • If I had known it was dangerous I wouldn't have been climbing that cliff.

The perfect continuous conditional -aikamuoto

Minkä tahansa verbin perfect continuous conditional -aikamuoto muodostetaan neljästä elementistä:
would + have + been + partisiipin preesens
Partisiipin preesens muodostetaan ottamalla sanan perusmuoto ja lisäämällä loppuun -ing.

Subjekti + would + have + been + partisiipin preesens
He would have been staying
They would have been going
To Work: Perfect Continuous Conditional
Myönteinen Kielteinen Kysymyslause Kielteinen kysymyslause
I would have been living I wouldn't have been living Would I have been living? Wouldn't I have been living?
You would have been living You wouldn't have been living Would you have been living? Wouldn't you have been living?
He would have been living He wouldn't have been living Would he have been living? Wouldn't he have been living?
She would have been living She wouldn't have been living Would she have been living? Wouldn't she have been living?
We would have been living We wouldn't have been living Would we have been living? Wouldn't we have been living?
They would have been living They wouldn't have been living Would they have been living? Wouldn't they have been living?