Complete the exhausted college student's text message to their best friend by choosing the correct option for each blank.

They say that no article laughter is the best medicine. But honestly, no article coffee is what actually cures my grumpy morning mood. Just make sure you don't drink the coffee from the broken vending machine downstairs!

They say that no article laughter is the best medicine.

We use the zero article (no article) with abstract nouns like "laughter" when speaking about them in a general sense.

But honestly, no article coffee is what actually cures my grumpy morning mood.

Uncountable nouns (like substances and liquids) also take no article when we are making a general statement about them.

Just make sure you don't drink the coffee from the broken vending machine downstairs!

We use "the" here because we are no longer talking about coffee in general; we are specifying exactly which coffee (the terrible stuff from that specific machine).