Business Zero First Conditionals BE - Exercise Worksheet

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Zero & First Conditionals

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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 Reference · Zero & First 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

First conditional —

If scalability isn't proven, investors won't commit. — real risk or warning

Common error

If we will launch... ✗ → If we launch... ✓ — never will after if

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Zero & First Conditionals

1.If a startup its burn rate early, the founding team retains more equity.

2.If we the product by Q2, we will capture the market before our main competitor.

3.If risk appetite among investors, fewer viable business models receive early funding.

4.If the team scalability to the panel, the accelerator will offer a place in the next cohort.

5.If bootstrapping the only option, founders tend to spend more carefully in the first year.

6.If we the founding moment now, a competitor will fill that market gap within six months.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.We cut the burn rate. Margins improve automatically.

2.We launch in September. We will reach break-even by December.

3.The team loses first-mover advantage. Competitors close the gap.

4.She secures the patent. She will protect the viable business model for ten years.

5.Risk appetite drops. Fewer startups receive early-stage backing.

6.The founder identifies a market gap now. She will have a scalability advantage over later entrants.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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