When carrying out a writing task remember that examiners look out for combined tenses. The conditional perfect is a great way of using combined tenses, impressing the examiner and scoring those key marks!
We use the conditional perfect to describe things we could/ would have done if the circumstances had been different, eg. "Miss, I could have done the homework but I was out last night!"
Here are some useful phrases that can be applied to any writing assessment. The first three expressions are ALWAYS followed by an infitive so they are quite easy to pop into your work.
- Le gouvernement aurait dû... = The government should have...
- J’aurais dû... = I should have...
- Il aurait pu... = He could have...
- Il aurait pu être pire = It could have been worse
Hope this helps! Try them out in your work this week!
Bonne chance!
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