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Geography
No article continents (Africa, Asia etc.) countries (France, Germany, Slovakia etc - but the Slovak
Republic, the United States, the United Kingdom) towns & cities (Bratislava, London
etc.) lakes (Lake Victoria, Lake Balaton etc.)universities (Oxford University, Nitra University etc.)
With the seas & oceans (the Atlantic, the Mediterranean etc.) mountain ranges (the Himalayas,
the Tatras) rivers(the Amazon, the Danube etc.)
Other expressions
I dont watch television very often but I listen to the radio all the time.
Ive got a headache.
Ive got a stomach-ache
Ive got a cold.
BUT
1. to talk about plural and uncountable nouns or when talking about things in
general:
I'm terrified of heights
I'm into drum and bass.
I hate cheese.
2. before countries, towns, streets, languages and single mountains:
I'm from China.
I've climbed Mount Everest.
Zero article
1. General meaning life, water
2. Abstract nouns education, love
3. Places in general France, Peru
4. Streets, squares Newton Street
5. Place (person)+airpot/ station/ university Yezin Agricultural University
6. Games / sports tennis
7. Language English
8. Academic subject Physics
9. Meals breakfast
10. Noun + number Platform 5
11. A place we always go to to school, at home, in bed
12. Days, months Sunday, January
13. Movement or transport by bus, on foot, by plane, by air
14. Exclamination with countable / uncountable noun- What sad news!
Hope that help you
The Zero Article does not exist. It is a useful term, however, to use when
describing how to use articles . Essentially when we talk about the zero
article we mean that we do not use any article in front of a noun . In other
words, we do not use a/an or the.
This article (excuse the pun) talks about when we do not use an article with
a noun.
General/Non-Countable Nouns
We don't use an article if we're talking about things in general (i.e. we're not
talking about a specific example) or with non-countable nouns :
Do you like cheese?
He adores dancing.
But if we want to talk about a specific piece of cheese we can say:
Pass me the cheese please!
OMG the dancing in the show was terrible!
Proper Nouns
Proper Nouns - or names - don't usually take an article:
I saw Rhianna in the high street!
* I saw the Rhianna in the high street!
* An asterisk denotes an ungrammatical sentence.
Noun + Preposition
When we use a noun with a preposition we often do not use an article (that
is, we just use the noun on its own):
I went to school but left my books at home. Mother was in church and
father at sea; Grandfather came to dinner later by train and Grandmother
managed to escape from prison to join us.
Institutions
When we talk about an institution, we use the zero article. When we talk
about it as a physical building, however, we use the:
He was taken to court to be tried; in the court he met an old friend.
Nouns in this group include: bed, church, class, college, court, home,
hospital, market, prison, school, sea, town, university, work .
Also...
We also don't use an article with:
years
Winter, February
festivals
Easter
continents
days
Monday, Tuesday
parts of day/night
magazines
Cosmopolitan, Time
countries
streets
named buildings
airports
Heathrow, Gatwick
mountains
games