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[rvkvenky]

When to use zero articles

[Rover_KE]

When do we use zero articles?

Here's a website you should find useful:

BBC World Service | Learning English | Grammar Challenge

Rover

[euncu]

Here's a website you should find useful:

BBC World Service | Learning English | Grammar Challenge

Rover

I checked the link, and to my suprise, I found this;
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4. In exclamations with what + uncountable noun:
What beautiful weather!
What loud music!
What disgusting food!
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I always use them with indefinite articles. So, I'm a bit confused now.

Would anyone shed more light on it?

[emsr2d2]

I checked the link, and to my suprise, I found this;
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4. In exclamations with what + uncountable noun:
What beautiful weather!
What loud music!
What disgusting food!
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I always use them with indefinite articles. So, I'm a bit confused now.

Would anyone shed more light on it?

The examples you have quoted are perfect. We would not say "What a beautiful weather". Weather is a mass uncountable noun and takes no article with exclamations. In fact, it only ever takes the definite article or the zero article.

The same goes for music. "What loud music!" - perfect. "The music is very loud" - perfect. "A music is loud" - totally incorrect.

And the same for food.