Hello there. My name is Ronnie. I'm gonna teach you some English. We're Gonna teach you some grammar
Love grammar Mm-Hmm. Grammar is hard difficult confusing
Nerve-racking, I hope to make this really really simple for you um
I'm gonna teach about conditionals now a lot of people get really mixed up and confused and hates
Conditionals there to make it easy for you
In English we [have] four conditionals. I'm going to teach you two these are [the] easiest and
You'll get them I promise
conditionals in English always start with if or when most of the times you're going to start with if but you [can] also use one
So the first one I'm going to teach you is zero conditional
Zero conditional you can think of is something that is always
100% true
Is anything really?
100% [always] true
That's a debate, but if you think of things that I like to call
scientific things things that have been tested and tried
experimented upon
You're going to come to the realization [that] some things are and will be 100%
Scientific things let's look at this first [example] if ice melts it
becomes water
always
true if I have an ice Cube and
I put it into the sun
Or I give it heat this is what melts mean melts means it changes [from] a solid to a liquid state
with heat
It changes into water
Unfortunately, it doesn't change into beer or money or gold
or
chocolates
ice
Always will become water
So if something is 100 percent scientific you're going to use a zero conditional
How do you make conditionals this is the fun part?
[as] I told you conditionals
usually start with if or we can use one so is zero conditionals if
plus the subject
plus the base verb
Now it's very important [that] you do not use any other verb you can't use a gerund you can't use past tense
you can't use would you can't use could you must use the base verb
so if subject + base verb subject
+ base verb again
This is the basic zero conditional
Pattern or style of grammar, so if we look at this. I am if my subject is ice and I have melts
But why did I put an s on melts and why did I put an s on becomes?
Does anyone know the answer?
The answer is because this is singular
it's an ice is singular if
Your subject is singular you need to put an s on the verb a hundred percent of the time
so if I smell ice ice if ice Melts I
Have a comma it is my subject
becomes base verb again water
[face] verb
Can you think of another zero conditional you can change this and say?
It becomes water if ice melts I can also change the sentences the sentence order
And it doesn't affect the meaning of the sentence
if I
Drink two hundred shots of Tequila. I
Will be very sick. I might die but I
become sick
Violently sick, I don't want to do it. Okay. The next one is your beautiful first conditional I
Just want you to look at the difference in the composition
Zero conditional is if + subject base verb?
base verb again
take a look at this sentence if
I go to the movies I will
Or you can use may might or could eat popcorn
Is this scientific if I go to the movies?
This means that I have to a hundred [percent] of the time eat popcorn
not scientific some people don't even like popcorn or maybe you don't have any money or
[maybe] you want chocolate instead of popcorn so in the first conditional the
Basic thing is not scientific it cannot be a hundred percent, but it's things that are
probable
It means it likely to happen or most of the time. This is true. So most of the time when [people] go to the movies
They eat popcorn let's look at the structure of this one
in the zero conditional
This is the structure. Can you tell me what's different about?
the first conditional
We have if + subject + base, so this is going to be the same
if
+ subject +
base
and then that that that
Then again, we have subject [oh]
oh, oh
What are you guys doing here? Oh no?
These are called Modal's the Modal's in English are will may might and could in
The 0 conditional we do not use a modal
so the only difference in structure between
0 and first conditional is
First conditional you must use a modal
That's it. Yeah, it's so easy wow okay, so if subject plus base
subject Plus Modal
and
We don't even change the verb it's the same base verb less
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