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• people: Meghna Mehta, Rajesh Trivedi.
• countries and continents: Japan, Denmark, Asia, Europe.

• cities and states: Jaipur, Nagaland.
• days, months, seasons, and festivals: Tuesday, March, Summer, Christmas.
• languages: Russian, German.

We do not use any articles:
• with nouns that name materials.
For example:
• This statue is made of marble.
• with abstract nouns.

For example:
• Honesty is a great virtue.
• when a noun is used in the general sense.

For example:
• Man is not immortal. (We are talking of human in the general sense.)
• with plural nouns when they denote a class.

For example:
• Horses are useful animals.
• with the names of meals — breakfast, lunch, dinner.

For example:
• Many families eat dinner together.
• with the names of diseases.
For example:

• Oncologists are doctors who specialise in treating cancer.
• with words like mother, father, uncle, aunt when they function as a proper noun.
For example:

• Mother has a passion for reading.
Repetition of Articles

The repetition of an article changes the meaning.

For example:
• There were on the jury among others a great orator and a great diplomat.
(Here, the reference is to two different persons.)

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