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Other Uses of ‘The’
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You normally use ‘the’ with proper nouns that are people’s names.
• If you are talking about a family, you can say ‘the Browns’.
• You use ‘the’ with some titles, such as ‘the Queen of England’, and the name of organizations, buildings, newspapers, and works of art.
Other Uses of ‘The’
• Examples
the United Nations
the Taj Mahal
the Times
the Mona Lisa
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with some proper nouns referring to geographical places.
the bay of Biscay
the Suez Canal
the Arabian Gulf
the Pacific Ocean
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with countries whose names include words such as ‘kingdom’, ‘republic’, ‘states’, or ‘union’.
the United Kingdom
the Soviet Union
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with countries that have plural nouns as their names.
the Netherlands
the Philippines
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You do not use ‘the’ with countries that have singular nouns as their names.
China
Italy
Turkey
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with names of mountain ranges and groups of islands.
the Alps
the Himalayas
the Bahamas
the Canaries
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You do not use ‘the’ with the names of individual mountains or islands.
Everest
Etna
Minorca
Bali
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with regions of the world, or regions of a country that include ‘north’, ‘south’, ‘east’, or ‘west’.
the Middle East
the Far East
the north of England
the west of Ireland
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You do not use ‘the’ with:
North America
South-East Asia
East Anglia
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You also do not use ‘the’ with ‘northern’, ’southern’, ‘eastern’, or ‘western’ and a singular name.
northern England
western Africa
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with names of areas of water such as seas, oceans, rivers, canals, gulfs, and straits.
the Mediterranean seathe Atlantic Oceanthe river Nilethe Panama Canalthe Gulf of Mexico
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You do not use ‘the’ with lakes.
Lake GenevaLake Superior
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You do not use ‘the’ with continents, cities, streets or addresses.
Asia TokyoOxford Street15 Park Street
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with adjectives such as ‘rich’. ‘poor’, ‘young’, ‘old’, and ‘unemployed’ to talk about a general group of people. You do not need a noun.
Only the rich could afford this firm’s products.They were discussing the problem of the unemployed.
Other Uses of ‘The’
• When you use ‘the’ with an adjective as the subject of a verb, you use a plural verb.
In the cities the poor are as badly off as they were in the villages.
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with some nationality adjectives to talk about the people who live in a country.
They will be increasingly dependent on support of the French.The Spanish claimed that the money had not been paid.
Other Uses of ‘The’
• With other nationalities, you use a plural noun.
Germansthe Americans
Other Uses of ‘The’
• When you use ‘the’ with a nationality adjective as the subject of a verb, you use a plural verb.
The British are worried.
Other Uses of ‘The’
• You use ‘the’ with superlatives.
He was the cleverest man I ever knew.He was the youngest.His shoulders hurt the worst.It was the most exciting summer of their lives.