THE DEFINITR ARTICLE

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I've seen a bird. THE birf was black and white. / There is a table. THE table is painted brown.
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when something that has already been mentionem is refered to again
The pens I gave you were free samples. / The letters on the top of shelf are for you
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when the person, thing is specified gramatically by means of a defining phrase or a prepositional phrase
The Titanic, The Queen Mary, The Canberra, The Queen Elizabeth
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before names of ships
The Earth, the Colosseum, the atmosphere, the sky, the sun, the North Pole
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before nouns or objects which are unique
The Hilton, The Ritz, The Grand Hotel, The Savoy / Brown's Hotel, Leoni's Restaurant, Lloyds Bank
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before names of hotels / THE is not used before names of hotels named after their founders and endins in "'s"
The British Council, The Red Cross, The Boy Scouts, The Democratic Party, The European Union
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before names of institutions/organizations and political parties
The BBC, The UN, The EU, The FBI / UNESCO, NATO, NASA
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before abbreviations of names of institutions when we cannot say them as a single word
The Times, The Mirror, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Economist, The New Yorker/ Time, Newsweek, Life
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before names of some newspapers and magazines
The Second World War, The French Revolution, The Cold War, The Renaissance, The Victorian Age
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before names of historical events
The British Museum, The Science Museum, The National Gallery, The Tate Gallery
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before names of museums and galleries
The Goverment, The Army, The Police, The public, the jury, the audience
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before group nouns
The Black Sea, The Baltic Sea, The Persian Gulf, The Gulf of Mexico
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before names of seas and gulfs
The Atlantic, The Pacific, The Indian Ocean
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before names of oceans
The Nile, The Thames, The Panama Canal, The British Channel
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before names of rivers and canals
The British Isles, The Bahamas, The Canary Islands
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before names of groups of islands
The Alps, The Himalayas, The Tatra Mountains
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before names of mountain ranges
The Sahara, The Gobi, The Kalahari Desert
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before names of deserts
The USA, The Republic of Poland, The Argentine Republic, The Czech Republic
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before names of places containing a common noun like republic, kingdom, union
The Tower of London, The University of Cambrige, The Library ofCongress, The Valley of Kings
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before names or nouns containins the preposition "of"
The Browns, The Johnsons, The Kennedeys
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before names of people/families in plural
Tye Americans, the Austrians, the Welsh, the Dutch
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before plural nationality nouns or nationality adjectives ending in -sh, -ch, -ese, -ss
The rich, the poor, the unemployed, the homeless, the blind
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before adjectives used as a nouns to describe group of people
I belive in the supernatural. / You're asking me to do the impossible. / Computer technology is moving into the unknown.
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before adjectives denoting an abstract quality (singular)
The Queen, the King, the President, the Pope, the Dutchess of Winsdor, the Prime Minister
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before titles without name
He plays the piano. / The violin in really difficult. / I became interested in the trumpet.
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before names of instruments in general
in the 1950's, in the sixtiee, in the nineteenth ceuntry, in the twenty-first century
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before namee of decades and centuries
(the) flu, (the) mumps, (the) measles, (the) chikenpox
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before names of certain diseases (optional)
The gorilla is shy creature. / It won't hurt the brain. / The dog in man's best friend.
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before singular countable nouns to refer to a whole group/class of people, animals, things

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