Is deck used without an article? Context: Up on deck, my eyes adjusted to the evening darkness. It's just one example of the word deck using without an article. It's used without one throughout the whole freaking book. Could you kindly tell me, is there some kind of damn exception that the word 'deck' doesn't need an article? More examples: 1. Up on deck is a cockpit. 2. Alexander stood on deck, waiting for us. 3. The mermaid flopped violently on deck. And so on and so forth.