Hello English learners. Hello. How are you? I'm Gabby from gonaturalenglish.com
And today I'm helping you with your grammar. No, don't run away. It won't hurt a bit
I swear I'm going to give you a quick and
Clear explanation of one of the most confusing and difficult areas in
English grammar and that is
conditionals today I'm going to
demystify
One of the four conditional tenses and that is the zero
Conditional so sit back relax, and let's build our confidence
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But actually to be able to use it in everyday
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and for that reason I'm not only
going to share the grammar rules with you and give you a
strong base to work from I am going to show you examples and
Suggestions for how to use the zero conditional so that sounds good. Then let's begin this month at go natural English
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I like this then like this. So for those of you with really short attention spans, I'm going to give you the quick
Explanation and then give you more examples for those of you with a longer attention span
First of all the way that we use these zero conditional is to talk about things that are 100% true always true
You might be wondering when does this happen exactly that things are 100% true
Well, that is a very good question. A lot of truths are debatable. The zero conditional is actually for
100 and truths
facts think
Science things that are really not debatable for example if water
reaches 100 degrees it
boils or
when ice melts
It turns into water. I've tried many times to turn ice into gold
Chocolate ice cream but it just doesn't work. So for better or worse
This is a fact that when ice melts it becomes water
so those were two examples of the zero conditional notice how we form it we need if
if
Ice melts or when ice melts and then we need the two parts of the sentence
so the first part is a subject and the simple present tense and the
Second part is also a subject and simple present tense
So it's simple simple and we can put that if or when on either part of the sentence
So we could say when ice melts
it becomes water or
Ice becomes water when it melts to think for a minute how to switch those around but it's quite easy you can have either
Parts containing if or when so this is a great way for you to express
logic for you to express
if-then
Statements and the zero conditional remember is specifically for facts a quick side note. Did you notice that I said?
when ice
melts
it becomes
as
water
Why did I have an S at the end of those verbs and not simply say melt or become?
because they are in the
third-person singular and we always
100 percent of the time you use an S on the end of the verb for the third-person singular
So I could actually make a zero conditional about this fact if you are using the third-person
singular verb form
Use an S at the end
Now, let's look at a couple of examples that are not zero conditionals just to contrast for example
If I go hiking I take selfies
This is a possibility but it's not always 100%
True. In fact when I go hiking I like to just enjoy the experience and not stop all the time to take selfies
Here's another example if I go to the movies or let's change it up when I go to the movies. I eat popcorn
well, this is also not 100% true always 100% of the time I
Do like to eat popcorn sometimes but not always so this is not actually a zero
Conditional because it's not like always
True, so I might want to eat some skills, or have a different kind of candy
So you just don't know it's not a scientific fact. Okay, okay
Now you've learned the zero conditional with confidence
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