Please look at this sentence. "The figures indicates that in these two years alone 9 million people would have joined the ranks of people officially registered as unemployed" In this sentence, for "would have joined" It doesn't look one of representative third conditionals, because in my view the second conditional has wishful nuance and the third conditional has a regretful nuance, eg If I had enough money, I would go to Japan. ( wishful mood in my idea) eg If I had had enough money, I would have gone to Japan ( a little regretful and wistful atmosphere in my idea) The meaning of that words,would have Past Participle, looks may(might) have Past Participle to me. Can I change "would have joined" in the sentence to "might have...
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