English · Feelings and Emotions
Articles with abstract nouns (happiness, humour, love)
Happiness, love and humour usually need no article at all
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Use (or absence) of articles with abstract nouns (happiness, humour, love)
The method
- Abstract nouns used generically take no article ('Happiness is ...', not 'The happiness is ...')
The common mistakes
- Adding 'the' before a generic abstract noun
From the lesson
Read these two sentences about the same idea. Only one of them sounds natural to a native speaker.
The vocabulary
- happiness (السعادة كمفهوم عام)
What is not on the syllabus
- Obligation/prohibition/advice modals (previous concept)