English Grammar: When NOT to use an article - 9 rules

Articles (”a”, “an”, “the”, or no article) can be very confusing to English learners. The most confusing thing is when NOT to include an article. In this English grammar class, I will show you 9 situations in which an article should be left out. For example, why is (Ø) French food delicious, while THE French love delicious food? Test your understanding with the quiz: www.engvid.com/when-not-to-us...
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Important note: languages DO get "the" if they have the word "language" after it. For example "Russian" vs "the russian language" or "English" vs "the english language"

[@Grace-cx9zu]

I see that there is no capital letter use as well when talking about the kind of language(?).

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@@Grace-cx9zu I have no idea. Honestly I think it might still be capitalized

[@illialomonos9674]

@@Grace-cx9zu languages should be capitalized

[@Mendas02]

Thanks for noting it

[@lynnvasquez4425]

If nationality is the same as the language, it does have “the” before nationality (e.g. The Russian speak Russian and The Thai speak Thai. Compare w/o “the” before nationality; Australians speak English as British as well. ** no article before language

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This helps me a lot. Using articles is the most challenging for me.

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1) Country Names 2) Nationalities 3) Languages 4) Sports 5) Academic Subjects 6) Geographic Features 7) Proper Names 8) Other Modifiers 9) General Reference To Uncountable Abstract Nouns

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@Anh Nguyễn Ngọc Duy because you have mentioned in your sentense that the test was yesterday, so it will be either " I can't believe I failed the test"( provided that you have mentioned which test you are talking about in earlier sentence) or "I can't believe I failed yesterday's test."

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Check out more of my videos on English grammar! The Definite Article: When to use "the" with abstract nouns in English kzbin.info/www/bejne/aau0h31jp8uZd6s Parts of Speech in English Grammar: Nouns and Adjectives kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4vThJita51gm6s

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are you in town for business or is this for a vacation? why we use the article with vacation and not with business ?? thanks

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Thank you, your video helped to refresh understanding of some exceptions!

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The Ukraine :)

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​@@giedregaizauskiene4674 no, we use Zero Article with countries if it's no exception)

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@@kononchukolha4650 True, there's no such thing as "The Ukraine"

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@@kononchukolha4650 and the Ukraine is an exception to the rule. But these days nobody cares at all. Read old grammar books.

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[@TheCheck01]

7:17 “… so lake Baikal in Russia or THE Hudson Bay in Canada no article” - lol. These rules are really confusing. By the way this is the best explanation of these rules. Thanks.

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