6. Rule # 1
• When your reader or listener can see the things, can
touch the thing, knows the thing, the thing is specific
or you can say “you know which I mean”.
• See
• Touch
• Knows
• Specific
• You know what/which I mean?
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7. Rule # 2/3
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•With superlative degree of adjectives
•The only one around
•The sun, the moon
8. Rule # 4
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•With the names of rivers, ocean, sea, lake, water
fall, or stream etc.
•The Arabian sea
•The lake Saiful Malook
9. Rule # 5/6
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• With the names of mountain groups and deserts.
• The Himalayas , the Sahara desert , the Gobi desert
• With the names of holy books
10. Rule # 7/8
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•With the names of newspaper , magazines or digest
etc.
• The names of musical instruments
• The piano
• The violin
11. Rule # 9/10
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• With the names of museums and art galleries
• The national museum
• With island groups
• the west indies
12. Rule # 11/12
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• listen to the radio and watch TV
• With the names of kingdoms, republics or states.
• The USA
• The UK
• The UAE
13. Rule # 13/14
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•With plural names of the people or countries
• The Netherlands
• The Shahs
• The Maliks
•With directions
• The North
• The West
• The South
14. Rule # 15/16
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•With the names having the word “of” in their name
• The bank of Khyber
• The great wall of china
• The governor general of Pakistan
•Don’t use “ the “ with “noun + number”
• Room 10
• Platform 5
• Terminal 2
15. Rule # 17
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•Don’t use “the” when the first word of a
noun is a name of place or a person.
• The taxilla museum
•The national museum