Are the past perfect and past conditional used correctly in the sentence below?
Si elle n'était pas devenue malade, elle aurait travaillé.
If she had not gotten sick, she would have worked.
Looks good.
Sra
Yes, the past perfect ("had gotten sick") and past conditional ("would have worked") are used correctly in the sentence. The past perfect is used to express an action that happened before another action in the past. In this case, "had gotten sick" happened before "would have worked."
To form the past perfect, you start with the auxiliary verb "had" and add the past participle form of the main verb. In this sentence, the main verb is "get," and the past participle form is "gotten."
The past conditional is used to express an unrealized or hypothetical condition in the past. It indicates that something did not happen because of a specific condition that was not met. In this sentence, the condition is "if she had not gotten sick," which was not met, and therefore "she would have worked" did not happen.
To form the past conditional, you use the conditional form of the auxiliary verb "would" (which is "would have") followed by the base form of the main verb. In this sentence, the main verb is "work," so the base form of the verb is used.
So, the sentence "Si elle n'était pas devenue malade, elle aurait travaillé" is correctly using the past perfect and past conditional to convey the idea that if she had not gotten sick, she would have worked.