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The O (zero) article is used:

- with abstract nouns (life, death, freedom, liberty, love, hate, knowledge, etc.), uncountable (milk, bread, butter, coffee, gold, iron, snow, cotton, wool, etc.) and plural nouns used in a general sense:
Most people fear death. Books are expensive.
- with meals, sports and games:
I have breakfast at 8 o'clock.
She sometimes plays handball.

- with proper nouns denoting persons, continents, countries, regions, towns, mountains, lakes and capes: Daniel, Europe, London, Mount Everest, etc.
- before words like: church, prison, school, hospital, market; cook, nurse, teacher, milkman, used for their primary purpose:
I go to school. Teacher is giving us a test.
- before names of languages, subjects, sciences:
I study Music. She likes Physics.

- with names of days, months, seasons, holidays:
Sunday is his favourite day.
- with the preposition by and means of transport:
I go by bike. He travels by plane.
- to express indefiniteness, instead of some:
There is some / 0 sugar in this coffee.
- in stock phrases: arm in arm, hand in hand, face to face, keep in mind, at dawn/at night, by day/by night, in place of, in order of, beyond hope, in case of, in front of, stay at home, from time to time, on sale, by means of, on foot, etc. « mai multe referate din Engleza