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Help the adventurous foodie complete their online restaurant review. Select the best option for each gap.
For _________________________ breakfast, I usually just eat toast, but this place is wild! They serve _________________________ fried crickets with garlic. I must admit, however, that _________________________ crickets they served today were surprisingly crunchy.
The correct answers are no article, no article, and the.
We use the zero article (no article) for meals in general (like breakfast, lunch, dinner) and for plural countable nouns when we are talking about them in a general sense (fried crickets).
However, when we refer to a specific group of something—like the crickets they served today—we must use the definite article the.