1.不用冠詞的情況
（1）專有名詞、物質名詞、抽象名詞、人名、地名等名詞前，一般不加冠詞。 China , Am
erica, Smith Air is matter.
（2）可數(shù)名詞前有物主代詞、指示代詞、名詞所有格等限制時，不加冠詞。 This dictionary is mine.
（3）季節(jié)、月份、星期、節(jié)日、假日、一日三餐名稱前一般不加冠詞。 March, May Day, National Day, Children’s Day, Women’s Day Have you had supper? Spring is the best season of the year. （4）稱呼語或指家用雇用的nurse、cook等名詞前及表示頭銜職務的名詞作賓語、補語及同位語時，一般不加冠詞。 What’s this, Father? We made him our chairman. Ask nurse to put the child to bed. Professor Li.
（5）學科名稱、球類、棋類名稱前不加冠詞。 Do you study physics? He likes playing football/chess.
（6）復數(shù)名詞表示泛指一類人或事物時前不用冠詞。 They are peasants/ workers.
（7）某些固定詞組中不用冠詞。
①名詞詞組中： husband and wife, brother and sister, body and soul, day and night, knife and fork
②介詞詞組中： to(at, from) school, in (to)class, in (to,at, from)university（college）,to（in, into, from）church, to(in,into, out of)prison(hospital, bed), to(at, from, out of)work, to(in, from) town,at (from)home, to(at)sea, at night(noon, midnight), by car (bus, bicycle, plane), on foot 注意：在有些詞組中，有無冠詞含義不同。 in charge負責，主管 out of question沒問題 in the charge由??負責 out of the question不可能
（8）as引導的讓步狀語從句中，作表語的名詞不帶冠詞。
Child as she is, she knows a lot of French.
（9）系動詞turn（作“變成”解）后作表語的單數(shù)可數(shù)名詞前習慣不用冠詞。
The young girl has turned writer. = The young girl has become a writer. ?