{"id":73613,"date":"2020-03-31T16:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73613"},"modified":"2024-02-19T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T10:49:30","slug":"zero-conditional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/zero-conditional\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Conditional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A conditional clause expresses a condition &#8211; something which must happen first so that something else can happen. Conditional clauses are also called if-clauses because they are introduced by the subordinating conjunction if. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zero conditional<\/strong> is used to talk about situations that always happen if something else happens. In zero conditional sentences, we use a simple present tense in both clauses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>If I have guests<\/strong>, I always cook for them.<\/li><li><strong>If you pour oil on water<\/strong>, it floats.<\/li><li><strong>If you heat metals<\/strong>, they expand.<\/li><li><strong>If I am bored<\/strong>, I go for a walk in the woods.<\/li><li><strong>If I call <\/strong>he always comes.<\/li><li><strong>If she is angry<\/strong>, I leave her alone. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases, it is possible to replace <strong>if <\/strong>by<strong> when.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When you pour oil on water, it floats.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conditional clause expresses a condition &#8211; something which must happen first so that something else can happen. Conditional clauses are also called if-clauses because they are introduced by the subordinating conjunction if. Zero&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2407,2406],"class_list":["post-73613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-conditional-sentences","tag-zero-conditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77212,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73613\/revisions\/77212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}