'Do Your Homework' or 'Do The Homework'. Which Is Correct?
The expression “do homework” refers to the work that a teacher gives a student to do at home.
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Do You Need a Comma With 'PLEASE'?
At the beginning of a sentence, a comma after “please” is generally unnecessary. At the end of a sentence, we usually need a comma before “please”.
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Articles (a/the) with Names of Common Places
We do not use the article “the” before school, college, prison, jail, and church when these places are used for their primary purpose.
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Can You Use the Article 'The' Before 'Court'?
Use the word “court” (without “the”) to refer to the legal system in a general sense, but include the article “the” to identify a specific court.
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Can You Use the Article 'The' With 'HOME'?
We always say “go home”, “stay home”, “get home”, “come home”, “leave home”, etc. (without “the”) to refer to the place where we live.
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Articles With Names of Meals
Generally, we use no article before the name of meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner). But there are many exceptions.
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Articles With Names of Symptoms and Diseases
Because most symptom names are countable, they usually require an article (a, an, the) or another determiner to identify or quantify the noun.
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When to Use the Article 'The' With 'Flu'
In everyday English, you can place the article “the” with some traditional folk names of diseases, such as the flu, the measles, or the chicken pox.
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Do You Need the Article a/an Before ‘Pain’?
In many situations, you can use both “pain” or “a pain” to speak about the unpleasant physical sensation caused by injury or illness.
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