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Here are some sentences about someone's routine:
1) I go to a cafe twice a week.
2) I go to a restaurant three times a week
3) I read a book four times a week.
Should he/she use "plural" noun to talk about general stuff?
I'd like to know if these sentences are right and whether they convey the message of the speaker .
There's no particular reason that plurals should be used here. The use of the indefinite article just means that the cafe, restaurant and book are unspecified, so they may or may not be the same one each time. You could use the plural, but in many cases it would be less natural.
You have to think here about what the basic sentence is. I go to a cafe is a fine sentence; it is then modified by twice a week. The number, or rather frequency, is changing the whole verb phrase, and has no impact on the validity of the grammatical number of anything in that phrase.
As always with articles, different options are valid and picking one over another is a matter of what exactly one wants to say.
For example:
- I go to a cafe ... . [There is a cafe, which I didn't mention before, where I go ... ]
- I go to cafe ... . [I have a habit of going to cafe, particular cafe is not important here, ...]
- I go to cafes ... [I casually go to cafe, to different ones ...]
TL;DR: sentences are okay, you are not obliged to use plurals for the mere purpose of indicating that you are referencing things in general, just using no article will suffice.
