1.There are some countable nouns that has to do with place,time, and movement are treated as uncountable nouns and we use no articles into it. |
With the nouns that are about places, the one with articles or without articles may have different meanings. |
here are some examples: |
The meeting is at the hall.(the hall is were the meeting is going to take place) -I saw her at hall.the hall is were she saw her) |
How many are you in the room? -Who close the room?(the one who close the room) |
For the hospital and university in American English it is not commonly used with articles. |
She was left alone in the hospital. They studied at the university together since it's there promise. |
2.If it is a double expression we don't usually put article into it, especially with prepositions. |
from left to right with soap and water side by side day after day today and tomorrow sun and moon with gloves and coat |
3.Noun lose their articles after the possessive's. |
The phone that was borrowed got lost. The company of wines had some problems with the stock. The house was built during the World War II. |