if you drink poison you die it's guaranteed it's a fact of life it's a zero conditional zero conditionals are used for facts when the result of the condition is one hundred percent certain if you water a plant it grows if you don't water a plant it dies a conditional sentence has two parts the if clause and the result and it can be if clause then result or result then if clause when the result comes first we don't use a comma in a zero conditional both parts of the sentence are normally in the present tense but
if we use the past simple to talk about conditions that were true in the past we can also consider it a zero conditional for example if i didn't do my homework i got detention a zero conditional doesn't have to be a scientifically proven fact the zero conditional is just a sentence structure and thanks to freedom of speech you can use it however you please in the next video we look at the first conditional and remember if you like the video subscribe
