{"id":73861,"date":"2020-04-07T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T10:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73861"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:43:59","slug":"common-expressions-without-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/common-expressions-without-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Expressions Without Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In some common fixed expressions to do with place, time and movement, normally countable nouns are treated as uncountables, without articles. Examples are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/expressions-without-articles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"744\" src=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/expressions-without-articles.jpg\" alt=\"expressions without articles\" class=\"wp-image-76173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/expressions-without-articles.jpg 989w, https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/expressions-without-articles-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/expressions-without-articles-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/expressions-without-articles-640x481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To\/at\/in\/from school<br>To\/at\/from university\/college (GB)<br>To\/in\/from college (US)<br>To\/at\/in\/into\/from church<br>To\/in\/into\/out of bed\/prison<br>To\/in\/into\/out of hospital (GB)<br>To\/at\/from work<br>To\/at sea<br>To\/in\/from town<br>At\/from home<br>Leave\/start\/enter school\/university\/college<br>By day<br>At night<br>By car\/bus\/bicycle\/plane\/train\/tube\/boat<br>On foot<br>By radio\/phone\/letter\/mail<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With place nouns, similar expressions with articles may have different meanings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I met her&nbsp;<b>at college<\/b>. (When we were students)<\/li><li>I met her&nbsp;<b>at the college<\/b>. (The college is just a meeting place.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In American English,&nbsp;<b>university<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>hospital<\/b>&nbsp;are not used without articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some common fixed expressions to do with place, time and movement, normally countable nouns are treated as uncountables, without articles. Examples are: To\/at\/in\/from schoolTo\/at\/from university\/college (GB)To\/in\/from college (US)To\/at\/in\/into\/from churchTo\/in\/into\/out of bed\/prisonTo\/in\/into\/out of hospital&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[846,2561],"class_list":["post-73861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-articles","tag-expressions-without-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77877,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions\/77877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}