Perfect Continuous Conditional

Formación

En las oraciones condicionales de tipo 3, es posible utilizar la forma perfecta del "present conditional".

Proposición "if" (condición) Proposición principal (resultado)
If + past perfect perfect continuous conditional
If this thing had happened that thing would have been happening.

Funciones

El "perfect continuous conditional" puede emplearse en las oraciones condicionales de tipo 3. Hace referencia al resultado incompleto de la acción expresada en la cláusula "if" y formula dicho resultado como una acción inacabada o en progreso.

Ejemplos
  • If the weather had been better (que no lo fue), I'd have been sitting in the garden when he arrived (pero no fue así).
  • If she hadn't got a job in London (cosa que sí consiguió), she would have been working in Paris (pero no fue así).
  • If I had had a ball I would have been playing football.
  • If I had known it was dangerous I wouldn't have been climbing that cliff.

El "perfect continuous conditional"

El "perfect continuous conditional" de cualquier verbo está compuesto por cuatro elementos:
would + have + been + present participle
El "present participle" se forma añadiendo la terminación -ing a la raíz del verbo de que se trate.

Sujeto + would + have + been + present participle
He would have been staying
They would have been going
To work: perfect continuous conditional
Afirmativa Negativa Interrogativa Interrogativa negativa
I would have been living I wouldn't have been living Would I have been living? Wouldn't I have been living?
You would have been living You wouldn't have been living Would you have been living? Wouldn't you have been living?
He would have been living He wouldn't have been living Would he have been living? Wouldn't he have been living?
She would have been living She wouldn't have been living Would she have been living? Wouldn't she have been living?
We would have been living We wouldn't have been living Would we have been living? Wouldn't we have been living?
They would have been living They wouldn't have been living Would they have been living? Wouldn't they have been living?