Plants grow if you water them. a. b If you talk to plants, they grow more. c f you use a mobile phone on a plane, it is not dangerous. 1 We use the zero conditional to talk about specific situations / things that are generally true, like scientific rules. 2 For the zero conditional, in the half of the sentence with if, we use the present simple / will. 3 In the other half of the sentence, we use the present simple / will.