zero article

The zero article is also used in instructions and manuals.

For more cases where no article is used, see Zero article in English.

The zero article is the absence of an article.

In addition, at times English nouns can or indeed must be used without an article; this is called the zero article.

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A zero article is an unrealized indefinite or definite article in some languages.

Zero article refers to noun phrases that contain no articles, definite or indefinite.

Linguists interested in X-bar theory causally link zero articles to nouns lacking a determiner.

Grammatically this some is not required; it is also possible to use zero article: Give me apples, Give me water.

The most common types of zero-marking in English involve zero articles, zero relative pronouns, and zero subordinating conjunctions.

In English, the zero article rather than the indefinite is used with plurals and mass nouns, although the word "some" can be used as an indefinite plural article.

Every noun must be accompanied by the article, if any, corresponding to its definiteness, and the lack of an article (considered a zero article) itself specifies a certain definiteness.

In a case where a noun does not have an explicit determiner (as in physics uses mathematics), X-bar theory hypothesizes the presence of a zero article, or zero determiner.

However, in some cases complete noun phrases are formed without any determiner (sometimes referred to as "zero determiner" or "zero article"), as in the sentence Apples are fruit.

Some of the differences between definite, indefinite and zero article are fairly easy to learn, but others are not, particularly since a learner's native language may lack articles, have only one form, or use them differently from English.