Please tell me if my sentence is correct. Thanks.
CONTEXT:

A woman died before the doctors were able to get to her. They didn't do anything because they arrived to find her already dead.

SENTENCE:

They injury was serious. If she had survived, what they [COULD HAVE DONE] [WOULD HAVE BEEN] supernatural.

QUESTION:

Are the tenses in capital letters correct?

Question

Please tell me if my sentence is correct. Thanks.
CONTEXT:

A woman died before the doctors were able to get to her. They didn't do anything because they arrived to find her already dead.

SENTENCE:

They injury was serious. If she had survived, what they [COULD HAVE DONE] [WOULD HAVE BEEN] supernatural.

QUESTION:

Are the tenses in capital letters correct?

Answer

Yes they're correct. Those are the most appropriate tenses for that particular context.
This is a conditional sentence whereby the condition is expressed in the Third Conditional, by using Past Perfect in the if-clause, therefore the result (theoretical condition) must be expressed with a modal auxiliary (would, could, should, etc.) + have + past participle.

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