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