Type II
If the speaker believes that the reality of fulfilling the condition is very small, a special speech construction is used. Drawing an analogy with the Russian language, it is a subjunctive ("if ..."). Example:
If the weather was good, I would go for a walk - If the weather was good, I would (go) for a walk.
Note that the situation described is happening while the person is talking about it. It's not about yesterday.
To create a grammatically correct statement of this type, you need:
in the subordinate part, put the verb-predicate in the Past Simple form;
use would + in the main part (but without the to particle).
Type III
If the fulfillment of this condition (including the performance of the action) is considered absolutely impossible by the speaker, another type of subordinating condition comes into play. The impossibility of such a situation is due to the fact that the action happened in the past and the speaker cannot change its outcome. Therefore, a complex subordinate clause with this type of adverb usually expresses regret and lamentation about the situation.
If the weather had been good yesterday, we wouldn't have stayed at home. Then we would have gone for a walk - If the weather had been good yesterday, we wouldn't have stayed at home. Then we went for a walk.
But there may be another, opposite situation. A person thinks about what could have been, but does not regret it. For example:
If I slept, I would be late - If I slept, I was late.
Note that the whole sentence means and expresses that a certain action could not be done in the past.
Such a grammatical structure is structured according to the following scheme:
in the subordinate part, the verb-predicate is put in the Past Perfect form;
would + Perfect Infinitive is used in the main part.
What tense is used in subordinate clauses?
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