Some nouns have to have “the” before it but seems like not all of them need it, so any explanations would be helpful!
edit: wow, didn’t expect so much traction on this. Thank you for your explanations! Interestingly, I’m actually a native English speaker but don’t really know grammar terminology all that well. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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It is interesting that this usage depends on English dialect and country. I’ll think of better examples soon, but it is the type of thing, when you move to a different country and want to say “Put the marbles in a line” you have to say “put the marbles in line” etc.
[edit: here is a not-great example, someone writing from Ireland, “….This may be a result of the influence of German-speaking immigrants on American English, as the German phrase ausfüllen can be directly translated to fill out. …Anecdotally though, it seems fill in is more common in British English. Here in Ireland we tend to use both, as we’re exposed to both British and American English quite often.”]
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