If you would have told me you needed a ride, I would have left earlier.
I have very vague awareness of the fact that there is a special type of conditional clauses using this pattern: If + would have + past participle. Could you please explain to me how my exemplary sentence differs from If you had told me you needed a ride, I would have left earlier.
Best Answer
The technically correct way to say it is:
As you noted in your question. I would say that formal usages still stick to this and never use "if you would have told ...".
However, there is a way in which there can be "would have" in the conditional: