Grammar: Articles
Do not use any article before/ when/with:
1. Names of languages: as;
a) English
b) French
c) German
d) Hindi
e) Nepali
f) Tamil
g) Kannad
h) Malayalam
i) Telugu
j) Urdu
k) Arabic, etc.
2. Names of games: as;
a) football
b) cricket
c) baseball
d) lawn-tennis
e) badminton
f) carom
g) judo
h) Taekwondo, etc.
3. Names of diseases: as;
a) dysentery
b) diarrhea
c) Malaria
d) Typhoid
e) tetanus
f) diphtheria
g) hoping cough
h) sinusitis, etc.
4. Before the words like
‘man’ ‘home’, etc. referred in general.
5. Before singular proper
names: as; Ram, Harry, Tom, Dick, Mt. Everest, etc
6. There is not any count
noun after the adjective of positive degree: as; Hritika is...ø… honest. Riwaz
is ...ø...nice.
7. Some content words like
adverb, verbs, pronouns, and even gerunds: like: Making money is
my goal.
8. Words like: type of, kind
of, sort of + noun
9. Rank and title without
any detail Major, Colonel, etc.
10. Words like school,
church, temple, prison, college, university, court, bed, etc. unless they are
used for secondary purposes.
11. With abstract nouns: love
kindness, mercy, ruth, happiness, sadness, etc.
12. Names of academic
subjects: as Mathematics, History, Economics, Literature, Phonetics,
Accountancy, etc.
13. Names of material nouns
(metals and non-metals): as;
a) gold
b) emerald
c) moonstone
d) silver
e) diamond
f) ruby
g) garnet
h) sapphire
14. Plural common nouns: as;
Cows are grazing, Boyd are reading, girls are playing, etc.
15. Reference to social
institutions: as; marriage, dowry, divorce, casteism,
16. Unspecified non count
nouns: as; victory, success, triumph, defeat, shame, pride etc.
17. Plural count nouns that
refer to things and beings in general: as; Cadillacs are the symbols of status.
18. Names of streets
(exception: The Champs Elysees), singular islands, lakes(singular), cities,
continents,
19. countries (exception: The
Sudan, the Ivory Coast), planets (exception the earth):as;
Victoria Lake, Fifth Avenue, Australia, Sri Lanka, Uranus, Kathmandu, New York,
London, New Delhi, etc.
20. Holidays, and names of
festivals, etc.: as; Christmas, Dashain, Tihar, Teez, etc.
21. Names of mountain peaks
and bays (if singular proper): as; Mt. Everest, San Francisco Bay, etc.
22. Dates written in this
form: July 4th, 1776, January 29th 2006, etc.
23. With words like:
downtown, downstairs, upstairs, Room No 25, work, church, but to the post
office, to the bank, etc.
Test Yourself:
Fill in the gaps using a/an/ the/zero article where
necessary.
If there has ever been…..book written about ……small talk, and how
to conduct it, I’ve never seen it. During….. holiday season…….is when we
need…….book like that…..most………cocktail or dinner party can be…..drag if people
don’t know how to carry small talk . …..person standing in front of you
with….Glass in his hand has hit…..ball back in your court and you ‘re right
where you started: In…..conversational abyss. You have to begin again.
The End
