ZERO CONDITIONAL

30 April 2020

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Today, I post the last part of conditionals, ZERO CONDITIONALS, WITH A MINI QUIZ.

Learn and understand the lesson. Revise all the previous lessons posted on conditionals

Tomorrow you will have to take a quiz on all conditionals, namely, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional and the zero conditional.

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HOD/ English

Zero Conditional

for certainty

If you heat ice, it melts.

We use the so-called zero conditional when the result of the condition is always true, like a scientific fact.

Take some ice. Put it in a saucepan. Heat the saucepan. What happens? The ice melts (it becomes water). You would be surprised if it did not.

if	condition	result
	Present Simple	Present Simple
If	you heat ice,	it melts.

Notice that we are thinking about a result that is always true for this condition. The result of the condition is an absolute certainty. We are not thinking about the future or the past, or even the present. We are thinking about a simple fact. We use the Present Simple tense to talk about the condition. We also use the Present Simple tense to talk about the result. The important thing about the zero conditional is that the condition always has the same result

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Look at these example sentences:

if	condition	result
	Present Simple	Present Simple
If	I miss the 8 o'clock bus,	I am late for work.
If	I am late for work,	my boss gets angry.
If	people don't eat,	they get hungry.
If	you heat ice,	does it melt?

result	if	condition
Present Simple		Present Simple
I am late for work	if	I miss the 8 o'clock bus.
My boss gets angry	if	I am late for work.
People get hungry	if	they don't eat.
Does ice melt	if	you heat it?

We often use when instead of if, for example: When I get up late, I miss my bus.

Mini Quiz

1. The zero conditional is used when the result of the condition is

            no longer true

            still possible

            always true

2. "If you _______ water for a long time, it boils." Which is correct?

            Heat

            Heated

            Had heated

3. "We get tired when we _______ get enough sleep." Which is correct?

            Won’t

            Don’t

            Haven’t