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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School can be a specific place like a nightclub, but also more of a state like saying I’m at work or home.
School can be a specific place like a nightclub, but also more of a state like saying I’m at work or home.
What am I doing in life? Well, I live in the city, I’m in school, and I have a dog.
Where am I right now, today, at this very moment? I’m at school.
School can be a specific place like a nightclub, but also more of a state like saying I’m at work or home.
A nightclub is a specific place. It is also a valid sentence to say, *I’m in a school*, but that doesn’t imply that you are a student.
Being “in school” implies you are a student which is a different thing. It’s an activity, not a place.
What am I doing in life? Well, I live in the city, I’m in school, and I have a dog.
Where am I right now, today, at this very moment? I’m at school.
What am I doing in life? Well, I live in the city, I’m in school, and I have a dog.
Where am I right now, today, at this very moment? I’m at school.
A nightclub is a specific place. It is also a valid sentence to say, *I’m in a school*, but that doesn’t imply that you are a student.
Being “in school” implies you are a student which is a different thing. It’s an activity, not a place.
A nightclub is a specific place. It is also a valid sentence to say, *I’m in a school*, but that doesn’t imply that you are a student.
Being “in school” implies you are a student which is a different thing. It’s an activity, not a place.
English has massive amounts of cultural rules and dialect. School is typically associated with a person, like you know what school is theirs. A nightclub is not that. The nightclub will take “a” or “the”. If you did that with school, it would show that one goes to various schools, like a job where on travels; or identifying your location.
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