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How do you use the phrase would have been?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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would have + past participle is used to talk about something in the past that did not happen and could not have happened (imaginary past)

If I had lived in Sparta I would have been a warrior.

This type of sentence is called a conditional sentence.

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