Help the clumsy baker reflect on his kitchen disaster by choosing the correct verb forms to complete his thought.

If I had used sugar instead of salt, the cake would have tasted much better!

If I had used sugar instead of salt, the cake would have tasted much better!

The third conditional describes an unreal or hypothetical situation in the past (contrary to fact).

In the "if" clause, we use the past perfect (had + past participle).

In the main clause, we use would have + past participle to describe the imaginary past result.