Zero & First Conditionals — When a Leap: Actually Starts Companies
Grammar: Conditionals
Free ESL grammar exercise on zero & first conditionals themed around when a leap: actually starts companies. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising conditionals. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The data on prior failure is equally clarifying. A founder who has previously run a company that failed is approximately twenty percent more likely to succeed in a subsequent venture than a first-time founder. If a founder carries prior failure experience, her pattern recognition accelerates. If she moves quickly enough, the first-mover advantage remains recoverable.
Grammar: Conditionals
- Zero conditional
- If you cut the burn rate, margins improve. — general truth or automatic result
- First conditional
- If we launch in Q3, we will capture early adopters. — realistic future plan
Sample items
- If a startup ______ its burn rate early, the founding team retains more equity.
- If we ______ the product by Q2, we will capture the market before our main competitor.
- If risk appetite ______ among investors, fewer viable business models receive early funding.
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