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Job Specific
- Presenting Results
- Explaining Dimensions
- Key Verbs to Describe Your Work Experience
- 12 Terms Project Managers Should Know
- Personality adjectives- describing a job candidate
- HR Vocabulary
- Business Abbreviations
- Meeting Minutes
- Word Combinations: Investments
- External Car Parts
- Internal Car Parts
- Balance Sheets – Finance Vocabulary
- Ten Logistics Terms
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Essential Grammar
- Take vs Last
- By vs Until
- Using Articles in English (a, an, the)
- Creating Opposites of Words
- Prepositions (in, on, at)
- German Road Signs with Helping Verbs
- Describing a Location
- Singular or Plural?
- Third Conditional for Lessons Learnt
- Signalling Adverbs
- Using Commas
- Linking Words
- Confusing Words in German
- To ‘be used to’ Vs ‘used to’
- Basic Word Order
Third Conditional for Lessons Learnt

We use the third conditional to talk about things which have already happened and cannot be changed. It’s used to talk about mistakes, problems, regrets and what should have been done and can therefore be a useful structure for talking about lessons learned in a project, i.e. both the positive and negative outcomes.
Look at these examples:
“If we had provided the specifications on time, the supplier would have finished the product at the deadline”.
(Meaning: We didn’t provide the specifications on time and the product wasn’t completed within the deadline.)
“We wouldn’t have achieved this amazing success if we hadn’t had such an organized and motivated team”.
(Meaning: We were very successful because we had an organized and motivated team.)
Third conditional form:
If + past perfect + would + present perfect
If we had co-ordinated more, this would never have happened.
(The order of the clauses can be changed without changing the meaning)
Now choose the correct sentences in the quiz below:



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