why is it that we can structure a sentence like “I’m in school” but not “I’m in nightclub”?

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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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Similar to “I’m in Scouts”, or “I’m in baseball”, school is a sort of club situation where you can be in it (by being a member of it) even when not actually attending, unlike Nightclubs which have no membership to be ‘in’ when not at the venue, hence I’m in the nightclub, rather than in nightclub.

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