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Zero Conditional: Conditionals

subject + verb in present simple + complement The document discusses conditionals and the zero conditional. The zero conditional is used to express situations that are always true and unchanging. It has two parts: the if clause using the present simple tense, and the result clause also using the present simple tense. Examples are provided such as "If you mix oil with water, it floats" and "If you boil water, it vaporizes." These sentences represent absolute relationships that are always true.

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Zero Conditional: Conditionals

subject + verb in present simple + complement The document discusses conditionals and the zero conditional. The zero conditional is used to express situations that are always true and unchanging. It has two parts: the if clause using the present simple tense, and the result clause also using the present simple tense. Examples are provided such as "If you mix oil with water, it floats" and "If you boil water, it vaporizes." These sentences represent absolute relationships that are always true.

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Conditionals

Zero conditional
It is important that you read the following information. It will guide you during the exercises
you have to realize. . Conditionals are sentences that express causes and their results. You can
use conditional sentences with If to talk about causes and results. If is a conjunction used to say
that one thing can, will or might happen or be true depending on another thing happening or
being true. The two situations, causes and results, can come in any order. In written English
when the conditional part, the cause, comes first, you put a comma between this part and the
result part.

Commas with Conditional Sentences


Use a comma when the if part of the sentence is at the beginning. Example: If I go to school, I
have to get up early. Don’t use a comma when the if part of the sentence is at the end.
Example: I have to get up early if I go to school. There are many different ways of making
sentences with if. One of them is the zero conditional. We use the Zero conditional to talk
about things or to express ideas that are generally or always true. They represent situations that
are unchanging. Because of their unchanging truth value, these conditional sentences normally
take a present simple tense in both parts of the sentence. They are especially frequent in
scientific writing, since Science is concerned with absolute relationships. Example: If you mix
oil with water, it floats.

This kind of sentences has two parts:

Part A: is the situation or condition (the If clause).

Part B: is the result or consequence (the result clause).

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Part A Part B +

If you boil water, it vaporizes.

1. Vocabulary: recycling

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You have to write a comma (,) between the two parts of the sentence when you begin with If.

2. Conditionals

• Zero conditional: If + present simple

Use the present simple tense in both clauses.

• First conditional: If + will


3. First conditional

• If + Modals of possibility

4. Modals

• Of possibility: may, might

• Of advice: should

Example: If you put water in the freezer, it becomes ice.

These sentences are based on habits and are frequent in conversations.

Example: If I wash the dishes, my daughter dries them.

It is possible to substitute When or Whenever for If and still express more or less

the same idea:

Example: When (whenever) I wash the dishes, my daughter dries them.

When (whenever) you boil water, it vaporizes.

Zero conditional sentences express no condition; these are sentences that are

always true. They refer to “forever”.

Example: If you add two plus two, you get four.

The following circles will show you how to form the zero conditional sentences and

the elements each part of the sentence has.

Form

1. If clause

The zero conditional has two parts of a sentence.

If + subject + verb in present simple +

complement

• The if clause and

• The result clause.

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2. Result clause

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