Timeline for Can school be used without articles
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| Dec 29, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | WS2 | You are perhaps right - my apologies. However at an individual school, they may refer to e.g something being held in "school hall", or a practice being against "school rules". There is no question as to which school is referenced as it is obvious. If you refer to @Edwin Ashworth's comment he explains further. | |
| Dec 23, 2019 at 2:34 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 22, 2019 at 21:49 | comment | added | linguisticturn | @WS2 Oops, you're right about Which school do you attend?; I changed that example. But can you explain why you are saying that he returned to school feeling much better is different from e.g. She drives the kids to school every morning? | |
| Dec 22, 2019 at 21:43 | comment | added | WS2 | +1 but a couple of criticisms. "Which school do you attend?" is not, I feel sure, a non-count usage. You could equally have said "Which of the following three schools do you attend?". Finally, you have not included the other instance where an article can be omitted - namely where you are speaking of a specific school. e.g. "He returned to school feeling much better". | |
| Dec 22, 2019 at 21:02 | history | answered | linguisticturn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |