The use of articles with the noun town.

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§ 29. The use of articles with the noun town.

The noun town when used with prepositions does not take an article:

(a)when we mean the nearest town (if we live in the country) or the town we live in.

You cannot go to town tomorrow. (Austen)

What can you have to do in town...? (Austen)

(b)when the noun town is opposed to the noun country.

He was not used to country life, having spent twenty years in town.

Otherwise the noun town is used with the definite or indefinite article.

I want to go to the town where I was born.

§ 30. The use of articles with the names of meals.

Names of meals are used without articles.

When did you have dinner?

Is dinner ready?

Mother is cooking dinner.

While they were at breakfast, the letters were brought in. (Austen)

I have finished breakfast, ring the bell. (Ch. Вrоntё)

The definite article is used when the nouns are modified by a par­ticularizing attribute or when the situation makes them definite.

The dinner we had today was very substantial.

The dinner was a success.

The indefinite article is used if the name of a meal is modified by a descriptive attribute.

Aftera hearty breakfast the four gentlemen sallied forth to walk to Gravesend. (Dickens)

§ 31. The use of articles with names of languages.

Names of languages when they are not followed by the noun lan­guage are used without articles:

She knows English.

Note the use of the definite article in: What isthe English (the French etc.)for 'сосна'?

The definite article is used if the noun is modified by a particular­izing attribute:

The English of America differs fromthe English of England.

When the noun language is mentioned the definite article is used: the English language,the German language.

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