If we had known how difficult the task was, we wouldn’t have started.

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You should carefully consider the difficulty of a task before starting it.

We usually assess the difficulty of a project before committing to it.

Did you evaluate the challenges involved before beginning the project?

If we had foreseen the obstacles, we might have chosen a different approach.

Had we been aware of the task's complexity, we would not have undertaken it.

If we'd known how tough it was going to be, we wouldn't have started.

We wouldn't have begun if we knew how hard it was.

Past perfect tense indicating prior knowledge.

Past conditional expressing a different action in the past.