This document provides guidelines for using the definite article "the" with various nouns. It indicates that "the" is not used with country names, mountains, lakes, or certain buildings and organizations. Exceptions include plural country names, geographical regions, certain building names that include "Hall," and famous landmarks, works of art, and publications. The use of "the" also depends on whether the name of a hotel or restaurant includes the owner's name.

2.  When talking about somethins specific.
 Used for the second reference of a noun.
 Superlatives.

3.  YOU DON’T USE ARTICLES
 Austria, Canada, Bangladesh, Italy, Thailand, China

4.  Plural country names:
◦ the Philippines,
◦ the Netherlands
 Names with Union or United:
◦ the United States,
◦ the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
 Full official names:
◦ the Republic of Cuba,
◦ the Kingdom of Sweden
 Geographical regions:
◦ the Ukraine,
◦ the Congo,
◦ the Sudan

5.  NO THE:
• Mount Baldy, Lake Arrowhead, Greenland,
• Zuma Beach, Pomona, Sixth Street,
• MacArthur Park, Niagara Falls, Riverside
• Community College
 EXCEPTIONS
• Groups of mountains, lakes, islands, cities,
• etc.: the Andes Mountains, the Great
• Lakes, the Maldive Islands, the Twin
• Cities, the Claremont Colleges

6.  the Avenue of the Americas,
 the City of Brotherly Love,
 the University of California at Riverside,
 the Island of Majorca

7.  the Balkan Peninsula,
 the Mojave Desert,
 the Mississippi River,
 the Holland Tunnel,
 the San Diego Zoo,
 the Museum of Modern Art

8. • Buildings named Hall:
 Independence Hall,
 Great Hall
• Buildings named House or Library may or may
not have THE:
 The White House,
 Blair House,
 The Huntington Library,
 Honnold Library

9. Use “the”:
 the Empire State Building;
 the Taj Mahal;
 the Mona Lisa;
 the Sunflowers

10. Use “the”:
 The Times;
 The Washington Post

11.  the United Nations;
 the Seamen’s Union

12. Use “the”
 the Ritz; the Ritz Hotel; the King’s Head; the
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Exceptions:
We do not use the definite article if the name
of the hotel or restaurant is the name of the
owner,
Brown’s Hotel;
Morel’s Restaurant,