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| ♦ with the names of cinemas (the Rex), hotels (the Carlton), theatres (the Globe), museums (the British Museum), newspapers/magazines (the Times but: Time magazine), ships (the Mary Rose), organisations (the EU), galleries (the Tate Gallery) ♦ with the names of rivers (the Nile), seas (the Caspian Sea), oceans (the Atlantic), canals (the Panama Canal) ♦ with the names of groups of islands (the Canary Islands), mountain ranges (the Alps), deserts (the Sahara Desert) ♦ with the names of countries when they include words such as state, Kingdom, republic, etc. (the United Kingdom) ♦ with names or nouns with of (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) ♦ with the names of musical instruments and dances. e.g. the piano, the tango ♦ with the names nationalities ending in -sh, -ch or -ese (the French, the Scottish, the Japanese, etc.). Other plural nationalities are used with or without the (the Americans, the Greeks, etc.) ♦ with titles (the King, the Prince of Wales, the President) BUT: ‘The’ is omitted before titles with proper names. Queen Victoria ♦ with the words morning, afternoon, evening and night. e.g. We eat dinner in the evening, but: at night, at noon, at midnight, by day/night, at 4 o'clock, etc. ♦ with historical periods/events, the Middle Ages, the Crimean War (but: World War II) ♦ We use the + adjective to refer to a group of people usually with the adjectives: poor, rich, sick, injured, elderly, unemployed, homeless, disabled, young, old, dead, blind, deaf, handicapped, mentally ill. e.g. The young are usually impatient. | ♦ with proper nouns, e.g. Mark lives in Brighton. ♦ with the names of sports, games, activities, days, months, celebrations, colours, drinks, meals and languages (when they are not followed by the word ‘language’), e.g. I often play chess. We speak German, but: The German language is difficult to learn. ♦ with the names of countries (Italy, but: the Netherlands, the Lebanon, the Sudan, the Vatican City), cities (Paris), streets (Oxford Street, but: the High Street, the Strand, the Mall, the London road, the A19, the M6 motorway), squares (Trafalgar Square), bridges (Tower Bridge but: the Bridge of Sighs, the Humber Bridge), parks (Hyde Park), railway stations (Victoria Station), mountains (Ben Nevis), individual islands (Tahiti), lakes (Lake Geneva), continents (Africa) ♦ with two-word names when the first word is the name of a person or place Gatwick Airport, Windsor Castle BUT: the White House (because White' is not the name of a person or place) ♦ with names of pubs, restaurants, shops, banks and hotels named after the people who started them and end in -s or -’s. (Lloyds Bank, Harrods, Dave's Pub but: the Red Lion (pub) (because ‘Red’ is not the name of a person or place) ♦ with the words bed, church, college, court, hospital, prison, school, university, sea when we refer to the purpose for which they exist. e.g. Sarah went to school. (She is a student.) BUT: Her father went to the school to see her teacher yesterday. (He went to the school as a visitor.) ♦ with the word work (= place of work). e.g. He is at work. ♦ with the words home, Father/Mother when we talk about our own home/parents, e.g. Father is at home. ♦ with by + means of transport: by bus/car/train/ plane, etc. e.g. She travelled by bus. BUT: She left on the 8 o’clock bus this morning. ♦ with the names of illnesses, e.g. He’s got malaria. but: flu/the flu, measles/the measles, mumps/the mumps |
EXERCISES
Exercise 24. Fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list adding ‘the’ where necessary. Use each word twice.
| prison | school | bed | sea | hospital |
1. The minute we reached the beach, the children ran into … to swim.
2. My brother is in the navy. He is at … for months sometimes.
3. I usually go to … at about 11 pm to get a good night’s sleep.
4. The cat is sitting on ….
5. The Prime Minister visited … yesterday and talked to the prisoners.
6. The men who robbed the bank are in … now.
7. The ambulance took the injured people to ….
8. I must go to … to visit my aunt. She’s had an operation.
9. We saw the children in their classrooms as we walked past ….
10. I want to go to university when I leave ….
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