zero conditional (If you heat ice, it melts) - WordReference Forums
2015年1月13日 · The zero conditional gives the statement an air of a rule for all time. It effectively means Whenever you heat ice, it melts. The first conditional is a true conditional - If you happen to heat ice, it will melt. I would hold that in a case like this - a law of Physics - we would more naturally use the zero conditional.
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2015年5月15日 · Zero conditional is about general truths, habits or routines. Thus, the connotation of the three words (when, whenever and if) do not have much sense here. I gave an example: If the sunset happens, I go to see it. Whenever the sunset happens, I go to see it. When the sunset happens, I go to see it.
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2016年4月19日 · Zero Conditional: * something is 100% true; it's always true; scientific facts, laws of nature; First Conditional: * likely to happen in the present or future. There is no problem with clear examples: If you mix blue and yellow, you get green. ---> always true; every time the condition is fulfilled, you get the result;
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2017年3月24日 · Zero Conditional If my wife has a cold, I catch it. Explanation: The person is saying that every time - past, present or future - his wife has a cold (multiple-situations) he catches it. The result (he catches it) is always 100% probable. 1st Conditional If my wife has a cold, I will catch it. Explanation:
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2008年8月3日 · Well, firstly I would say that this would be more familiar if written "zero conditional". It's a grammatical or linguistic term, but likely to be understood only by language specialists and students, or students and teachers of English as a second language, who are taught and teach conditional forms "by the numbers" as it were: "zero", "first", "second" and …
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2017年3月26日 · So your zero conditional becomes open/real non-past and your 2nd conditional becomes remote non-past (or does it? See below). Important: your 2nd conditional is ambiguous since it is also an open/real past conditional (i.e. the past tense (missed/would) refers to the past and there is hypothetical interpretation). It means whenever/every time ...
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2021年9月28日 · I'm not sure why something should be called a 'zero conditional'. Click to expand... The usual nomenclature is a "type X conditional" where X is either 1, 2, or 3, but then they added type 0, which is used for things like permanent truths.
If you eat too much junk food... (zero/first conditional)
2023年11月16日 · In my opinion, either zero or first conditional is natural in the above sentence as long as we don't have more context. But what about these sentences: If you leave your ice cream out, it will melt/melts. If you don't turn off the lights, we (will) waste electricity. To me, the situation seems clear enough, so I'd opt for first conditional.
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2022年8月13日 · No sequence of events is usually, if ever, implied in a zero conditional, which is typically a statement that “if/when/where A is true, B is also true”. So if A is in action, B happens/happened or is/was happening simultaneously.
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2017年5月5日 · I think you've analyzed the two different types of conditionals correctly there. What I confess puzzles me slightly is why the original dialogue has mixed the types in the first place, though. Given that the whole scenario is depicting the consequences of flouting these 'restrictions', you could change the first conditional to "If you go past the 100 foot perimeter, a