Something is always dependent upon something else. No matter how much you love independence, you cannot get away from this. Conditionals are grammatical structures at sentence level that highlight this dependence. They can refer to the past, present, or future, and they can also be a mix of these.
The image above demonstrates the skeleton of the 3rd conditional, which we use to talk about events in the past. To be more precise, a conditional sentence like this one talks about how an event may have been, but was not so. It is hypothetical.
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