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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by art museums great

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places to see beautiful works of genius or take a nap [People admiring art work]

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whatever we're into I'll fill in the blank with correct form of the verb to

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go I blank through the art museum for the event if I hadn't been down with the

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flu and here the conjoined all right I'll give you a hint this sentence is

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not just any kind of sentence but a conditional sentence we can almost hear [People smiling]

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you fooling and annoying anyway if you can unlock the ancient mysteries of the

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conditional sentence the correct answer will be right there for the taking [Man moving a boulder]

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all right well conditional sentences are used when we want to express an action

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that will only happen if some condition is fulfilled if something then something

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else got it now look at our sentences here all right it's got an F in it but

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it's hiding in the middle sneaky fortunately the if doesn't have to be as

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a start of a sentence as long as it fulfills a condition in this case so

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that condition is impossible to fulfill because it no pass the person's had the [Woman using computer and red light appears]

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flu but have no way they went or are going into the art museum when we want

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them only chance with exotic orbit so to fill in the blank we need to would have [Man looking at Mona Lisa painting]

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and the past participle of the verb again we would have done this except for

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the fact that now it's been possible sorry since the past participle of the

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verb to go is gone our blanks will be filled with would have gone if we look

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at our options we see that would have done is a so we have our answer and same

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tricky I really like the smile right off our face [Mona Lisa sneezes]

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