Should you have come here before you could have met Will.

[atabitaraf]

Should you have come here before you could have met Will.

I need to know the type of this conditional.
I think it might be a mixed, the then clause is definitely the third type, but I don't know what the 'if clause' is. It might be the first, right?
How could we mix them like that?

 

[Piscean]

Should you have come here before you could have met Will.

Where did you read this sentence?

 

[jutfrank]

I need to know the type of this conditional.

Can you tell us why you need to know this?

 

[atabitaraf]

Where did you read this sentence?

On preply.com which is an online learning/teaching facility.

 

[atabitaraf]

Can you tell us why you need to know this?

Because one of the issues I've faced in English classes was to answer the question, "How many conditionals do we have?". Another reason is that if I can categorize them well, I'll learn/teach better.

 

[Piscean]

Should you have come here before you could have met Will.

That is not a very natural question.

"How many conditionals do we have?".

There are many.

Our series of articles on conditionals beginning here may help you..

 

[emsr2d2]

Should you have come here before you could have met Will.

That is not a very natural question.

I don't think it's meant to be a question. I think there's a comma missing after "before" and is intended to mean "If you'd come here earlier, you could have met Will".

 

[Piscean]

I don't think it's meant to be a question.

My bad. I meant to write 'sentence'.

 

[atabitaraf]

Thank you all, I got it, so if the sentence in #1 includes a comma, it will be a type 3 conditional.
1. Should you have come here before, you could have met Will.
or
2. Should you have come here earlier, you could have met Will.