Langue anglaise · Feelings and Emotions
Articles with abstract nouns (happiness, humour, love)
Happiness, love and humour usually need no article at all
6 minutes
Le contenu académique est en arabe, comme au BAC et comme dans l’application.
Ce que le programme attend de toi
- Use (or absence) of articles with abstract nouns (happiness, humour, love)
La méthode
- Abstract nouns used generically take no article ('Happiness is ...', not 'The happiness is ...')
Les erreurs fréquentes
- Adding 'the' before a generic abstract noun
Extrait du cours
Read these two sentences about the same idea. Only one of them sounds natural to a native speaker.
Le vocabulaire
- happiness (السعادة كمفهوم عام)
Ce qui n’est pas au programme
- Obligation/prohibition/advice modals (previous concept)