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Vincent Teo Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Go to temple / to the temple

Normally we say,

I go to church.
I go to school.

We don't put any article before "church" or "school". I got 2 questions.

(a) If I put articles before them, do we accept?
(b) what about temples and mosques?
- go to temple/go to the temple?
- go to mosque/go to the mosque?
  

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Yes, they can be used in much the same way as both school and church. What is more important is to understand when you should use them without 'the' and when 'the' should not be left out.

I go to church/mosque every Sunday. (the emphasis here is not on the location of the church/mosque but rather on the activity that takes place regularly in those places. I go to church/mosque (to pray
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AS *****, the compiler of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, says that we should use the before mosque, temple, and synagogue even when we are going there to pray. They are unlike church in his opinion. But Hewings says in his Advanced English Grammar that we should not use the if we are going to mosque, temple and synagogue for

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