Why don't we need an article before the word 'break'?
Why don't we need an article before the word 'break'? 'When's break?' 'It was break'. I found these sentences in my daughter's lesson about school and I don't khow how to explain her the zero article here.
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It's fine.
Saying 'It was break' is no different from saying 'It was summer' or 'It was morning' or 'It was Christmas'. We can use these words without articles to define what 'kind of time' it was.
It was summer, so the children were allowed to come to school in shorts.
It was Christmas, so the children gave each other presents.
It was break, so the teacher wasn't in the classroom.
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I am tempted to say that it should be there but most people understand the sentence without. "When's break?" is really a shortened version of "When is it time for a break?" and "It was break" is a shortened version of "It was during the break."
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"Deprecate" means "to express disapproval of", not "answered". I think you're trying to use it in the sense of the following article, and not correctly either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation
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They say it's okay.
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Deprecated. Su nailed it below.
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