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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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If people don't get enough food, they become/will become ill.
If we don't water plants, they die/will die.
  

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If we don't water plants, they die/will die. Both the present and the future are possible after an if -clause in the present. There is often no significant difference in meaning.

— CalifJim

  • If we don't water plants, they die/will die.
  • Both the present and the future are possible after an if -clause in the present.
  • There is often no significant difference in meaning.
  • CJ
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Anonymous If people don't get enough food, they become/will become ill.If we don't water plants, they die/will die.
Both the present and the future are possible after an if-clause in the present. There is often no significant difference in meaning.

CJ
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Thanks. So the zero or the first conditional are both correct here? It's a choice question. I need to choose only one.
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AnonymousI need to choose only one.
Then don't use the ones with "will".

These sound like statements of general principles, and those kinds of statements are usually in the present tense all the way through.

CJ
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