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All variations apart from those involving a news are valid, but they're not completely interchangeable. When television is used without an article, it generally refers collectively to the entire syst …

It's optional whether to include the indefinite article an before conversation in OP's exact context. I can't really see much scope for a difference in meaning, nor is it obvious to me that either ve …

We can choose whether to include the article in, for example,... 1: His words have meaning. 2: His words have a meaning. There's not much difference between the two possibilities above, but a …

The speaker could have used indefinite articles (an anti-weed guy, a pro-logic guy), but in context there's a subtle extra implication to his actual choice. …

Idiomatically, it's quite okay in such contexts to use the relaxed / colloquial contracted form There's with a plural referent, instead of There are (which many would find "awkward" to enunciate as co …

In OP's first example... 1a: Think about the movies you like to watch or the books you like to read ...the highlighted definite articles are completely optional, and most people would probably say …

think this shows is that we naturally tend to repeat the definite article in the "purest, simplest" context #1 - but this is more to do with parallel structure and consistency / "laziness" (why switch articles …

The article is optional in the cited context Note that if you don't have the article, "assembly" here can only refer to the process of assembling. But if you do include the article, it's entirely a ma …

Idiomatically, we nearly always use the definite article before right person [for the job] - the implication being there's one particular person we're looking for (even if we've no idea yet who that p …

You might expect only the indefinite article (a, an) to be used in such contexts, because we know that in principle there are many individuals who could fit the description average, ordinary, typical …

Per this NGram, from information provided by is over twice as common as from the information provided by. Personally, I think that preference would be even stronger if I could generate a chart compari …

When used as a proper noun (the name that a child uses to address or refer to their father, as in Hello Dad!, I'm speaking to Dad) it's capitalized, and doesn't take an article... When it just identi …

You can use either. Probably most speakers would tend to use the indefinite article ("a copy"). Not least because the preceding utterance used that form twice, and the definite article wouldn't really …

Strictly speaking this is just a special case of what should be addressed by How do I know which article to use?, but I'm afraid no answer there seems to directly address the specific current case. T …

1: I saw a suspicious-looking man hiding in the bushes in the park, so I called the police. From Google Books, I called the police then:472 hits; I called police then:1 hit (included "then" to …