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Sebayanpendam Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Preposition + zero article + noun

hi,
i have a question here regarding certain nouns such as hospital, school, and university.
i noticed that some nouns after prepositions do not have an articles to indicate their purposes.
for example,
Alisha goes to school.
this is to show that she is a student.

Does it apply to 'market'?

1. I'm going to market later.
2. I'm going to a market later?
or
3. I'm going to the market later?

What are other instituitions which show sense of purpose?

Thanks.
  

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1. I'm going to market later. Yes, it works with 'market' (and your other market sentences refer to individual markets)-- also church, hospital, school, college, university , work (and 'home' omits 'at' ).

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  • I'm going to market later.
  • Yes, it works with 'market' (and your other market sentences refer to individual markets)-- also church, hospital, school, college, university , work (and 'home' omits 'at' ).
  • There may be a few others, but those are all that spring to mind.
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1. I'm going to market later.

Yes, it works with 'market' (and your other market sentences refer to individual markets)-- also church, hospital, school, college, university, work (and 'home' omits 'at'). There may be a few others, but those are all that spring to mind.
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