curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-determiners-and-advanced-use-of-articles/6810e69822792027a65fbb81.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
Testing it in BLANK could give us BLANK into BLANK performance.
real situations
These two words refer to different situations in the real world (general, not specific). Use the plural form.
better insights
These two words refer to different types of better understanding (general). Use the plural form.
its
This possessive determiner shows that the performance belongs to the European provider.
Its is a possessive determiner used to show that something belongs to a thing (not a person). Notice there's no apostrophe. Here, its performance means the performance of the European provider.
No article is used before real situations or better insights because they are plural, general ideas.
You normally do not use articles when talking about general, plural nouns.
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