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NAMES WITH AND WITHOUT THE. ARTICLES . The is used with :. names of rivers, oceans, and seas ( The Thames ) names of points on a globe ( The North Pole ) names of large, geographical areas ( The South ) names of deserts ( The Sahara )

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  1. NAMES WITH AND WITHOUT THE ARTICLES

  2. Theisusedwith: names of rivers, oceans, and seas ( The Thames) names of points on a globe (The North Pole) names of large, geographical areas (The South) names of deserts (The Sahara) names of forests (The Sherwood) names of gulfs and peninsulas(The Gulf of Mexico) proper nouns that contain “of” in the name (The fourth of July, The United States of America) pluralnames of people (The Bundys) pluralnames of places (The Alps)

  3. Nameswithout THE continent (Africa) country (England) city (London) mountain (Mount Everest) lake (Lake Superior) names of most city streets and roads (Broadway) names of companies(British Airways) names of meals (breakfast)

  4. Therearesomeexceptions: somestreets: the High Street somecities: the Prague the Vatican somecountries: the Ukraine the Phillipines

  5. The is the definite article in English.HOWEVER… The may also refer to: The (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter used in the Bashkir and Chuvash language, pronounced as voiceless dentalfricative /θ/ Ṭhē, a letter of the Arabic alphabet The The, a British music group The..., an EP released by TVXQ, a japanese pop band 

  6. SOURCES: • EnglishGrammarinUse, Raymond Murphy, Cambridge University Press, 2004 • FCE Gold Plus, J. Newbrook, J. Wilson, R. Acklam, Pearson Education Limited, 2008 • http://unenlightenedenglish.com/2009/04/grammar-guide-articles • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_%28disambiguation%29 THEEND

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