A. Identify the kind of conditionals.
1. If you heat ice, it melts.
2. If it rains, we will cancel the picnic.
3. If you stand in the rain, you get wet.
4. If you don't water these plants, they die.
5. If you pull the dog's tail, it will bite you.
6. If you don't hurry, you will miss the flight,
7. If I had more free time, I would be happy.
8. If he had asked me, I would have helped him.
9. If you touch that wire, you will get an electric shock.
10. If I won the lottery, I would travel around the world.
11. If I go to Italy next month, I'll buy a variety of
Italian cheese.
12. If you had been more careful, you wouldn't have had
an accident.
13. If I had brought my camera with me, I would have
taken a photo
14. If the ambulance hadn't arrived quickly, the victim
would have died.
15. If you had brushed your teeth more frequently, you
wouldn't have had cavities.
Answers
Explanation:
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.