Articles A/AN/THE
No Article 1, vimos 3 regras de ouro para diminuir os erros do uso dos artigos:
- People’s jobs have a/an. He’s an architect.
- Singular countable nouns have an article. That’s the woman I met last week.
- Things in general – no article. Cats like mice.
Veremos agora outras regras para o uso dos artigos:
Special places (Lugar específico)
Resolva exercícios e atividades acadêmicas
- My son’s at university but my daughter still goes to school.
- He was sent to prison for 10 years.
- Now that winter’s here I find it difficult to get out of bed.
- I go to work by bus but I go home on foot.
Em expressões com o número dos lugares NÃO HÁ ARTIGO depois da preposição:
to/at school, to/at university/college, to/in church, to/in/out of prison, to/in hospital, to/in/out of bed, to/at work, at home.
OBS: Enquanto nós dizemos ‘go to school’ e ‘go to work’ etc, a expressão ‘go home’ não tem ‘the’ nem ‘to’.
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Transport (Transporte)
- I go to work by bus but I go home on foot.
- I hate travelling by train.
Meios de transportes (by bus, by train, by car, by plane, by bicycle) não tem artigos. Mas on foot é diferente.
Geography (Geográfico)
No article – continents (Africa, Asia etc.) countries (France, Germany, Slovakia etc - but the Slovak Republic, the United States, the United Kingdom) towns & cities (Bratislava, London etc.) lakes (Lake Victoria, Lake Balaton etc.) universities (Oxford University, Nitra University etc.)
Com ‘the’ - seas & oceans (the Atlantic, the Mediterranean etc.) mountain ranges (the Himalayas, the Tatras) rivers (the Amazon, the Danube etc.)
Other expressions (outras expressões)
- I don’t watch television very often but I listen to the radio all the time.
- I’ve got a headache.
- I’ve got a stomach-ache
- I’ve got a cold.
Mas
- I’ve got ‘flu.
- I’ve got earache.
- I’ve got toothache.
Outras doenças não tem artigo.
Fonte: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar/articles-2
