Question

If I am back early, I __________ (help) my mother cook. (zero conditional)​

Answer 1

If I am back early, I will help my mother cook.

• The specific conditional is used to express claims about the reality or truth.
• it frequently relates to broad truths like scientific facts. The moment is now or always in these lines, and the scenario is real and possible.
• For example - If you mix red and white, you get pink.
• Thus, the correct sentence is - If I am back early, I will help my mother cook.

Answer 2

If I am back early, I will help my mother cook.

• The above-given sentence is in first conditional.
• In zero conditional sentences, the tense in "if clause" and also in the "main clause" should be in the simple present. For example, if it rains, the grass gets wet.
• The zero conditional clause sentences often refer to general truth.
• In the first conditional clause sentences, the tense in "if clause" is "present simple" and the tense in "other clause" is "future simple". For example, If I see a movie, I will tell him.

In the given sentence, "If I am back early, I will help my mother cook.", the first conditional clause is used here.