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If he hadn’t been sick, he would have attended the meeting.

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Sentence

Narrator

If he hadn’t been sick, he would have attended the meeting.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Giving Advice

You should have attended the meeting if you hadn't been sick.

Describing Habits

I always attend meetings unless I'm unwell.

Asking About Others

Would you have gone to the meeting if you weren't feeling ill?

Sharing Hypotheticals

If I had been sick, I wouldn't have attended the meeting either.

Rephrased versions

Formal

His absence from the meeting was due to illness.

Casual

He would've been at the meeting, but he was sick.

Simpler English

He missed the meeting because he was sick.

Phrases to learn

If he hadn’t been sick

This is a conditional clause indicating an unrealized past situation.

would have attended

Expresses a hypothetical past action that did not occur.