[Grammar] in class/in the class

[englishhobby]

Do we need an article?
He is a new boy in (the) class.
I think the answer is yes, right?

 

[Tdol]

It would depend on the context, but without anything more, it sounds fine without to me.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Without other information, I would use "the".

 

[englishhobby]

I think it's again this difference between BrE and AmE (like at university versus at the university etc)

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I'm American, and they both sound fine to me. (But at university sure doesn't!)

 

[MikeNewYork]

Charlie, a moderator has requested a number of times that you do not use your own emoticon. Is that too difficult? Why not just comply?

 

[emsr2d2]

Do we need an article?
He is a new boy in (the) class.
I think the answer is yes, right?

For me, it would depend on the rest of the sentence. I would use:

He is the new boy in the class.
There is a new boy in class.

I would use the first sentence regardless of where I was at the time. I might say it in the relevant classroom, in the staff room, outside the school grounds or just about anywhere. I would use the second sentence if I were actually in the classroom at the time, with all the students and where I could indicate the presence of the new student.

Note that I wouldn't say "He is a​ new boy ..." at all.