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1 4-1 1 USING 0 (NO ARTICLE) TO MAKE GENERALIZATIONS
(a) 0 Apples are good for you.
(b) 0 Students use 0 pens and 0 pencils.
(c) I like to listen to 0 music.
(d) 0 Rice is good for you.
(e) Tom and Ann ate some fruit.
The apples were very good, but
the bananas were too ripe.
( f ) We went to a concert last night. The
music was very good.
No article (symbolized by 0) is used to make
generalizations with:
plural count nouns, as in (a) and (b), and
noncount nouns, as in (c) and (d).
COMPARE: In (a), the word apples is general. It refers to all
apples, any apples. No article (0) is used.
In (e), the word apples is specific, so the is used in front of
it. It refers to the specific apples that Tom and Ann ate.
COMPARE: In (c), music is general. In (f), the music is
specific.
EXERCISE 36: Complete the sentences with the or 0 (no article).
1. 0 sugar is sweet.
2. could you please pass me the sugar?
3. Oranges are orange, and bananas are yellow.
4. There was some fruit on the table. I didn't eat bananas because they
were soft and brown.
5. Everybody needs food to live.
6. We ate at a good restaurant last night. food was excellent.
7. salt tastes salty, and pepper tastes hot.
8. Could you please pass me salt? Thanks. And could I have
pepper too?
9. coffee is brown.
10. Steven made some coffee and some tea. coffee was very good. I
didn't taste
tea.
11. Ilike fruit. I also like vegetables.
12. There was some food on the table. The children ate fruit, but they
didn't want
vegetables.
13. pages in this book are full of grammar exercises.
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