This document outlines rules for using definite (the) and indefinite (a/an) articles with nouns in English. It provides examples of when to use articles with singular and plural countable nouns, jobs, exclamations, frequencies, known entities, places, superlatives, idioms, generalizations, days/meals/months, and names of people/titles. Specific guidelines are given for rivers/seas, countries/unions, theaters/museums, singular entities, hospitals/schools/prisons, and names of individuals.
La presentación explica las dos maneras más comunes de expresar el futuro en inglés: "will" y "going to", y las diferencias de uso entre ambas estructuras.
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It's a presentation I've prepared for my students of 4ºESO to revise the use of TOO and ENOUGH. It includes lots of examples and an exercise. Suitable for pre-intermediate.
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Using The
1. When there is only one of something (The longest river in the world, the sun, the capital of France)
2. The same
3. The cinema, the theater
4. The radio, the Internet
5. Specific people or things
6. Specific type of animal/musical instrument
7. Adjectives for groups of people
8. Names of places with Republic, Kingdom, and States
9. Names of bodies of water and deserts
10. Compass points/ Regions
11. Names of buildings
12. Names of newspapers and organizations
Articles - Definite and indefinite articles in useAhmet Ateş
Recently, I was asked for a demonstrative micro-teaching for one of my job applications. That is what I came up with - the mighty articles.
This is not an original work of mine. Being just a handy guide for, what is to me, an essential part of English grammar.
Feel free to use and quote in your classes or even interviews. You can give feedbacks and improvement advices about the examples. There is still some rules missing.
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2. With all singular countable nouns when you
mention it for the first time, it’s not known:
Ex: The house has a terrace.
With jobs:
Ex.: I’m a teacher
In exclamations:
Ex.: What a boring class!
When talking about frequency or quantity:
Ex.: Twice a week, five euros a kilo
3. When something is known because it’s been
mentioned:
Ex.: I saw Mike with a woman and the woman was
really beautiful.
With places in a town:
Ex.: I went to the cinema, to the theatre
With superlatives:
Ex.: He’s the best teacher I’ve had in my life.
With fixed lexical phrases:
Ex.:The richer the happier
With adjectives and countable nouns for things in
general:
Ex.:The rich/the poor/ the polar bear is in danger.
4. In generalizations:
Ex.: Women are more intelligent than men
Love is the most important thing in life.
With some common place nouns after
at/to/from: work, home, school
Ex.: She’s not at home, she hasn’t come back
from school/work
Before meals, days, and months
Ex.: I had lunch with her on Tuesday
Before next/ last + days, week, etc.:
Last week I had an English exam, next week, the
teacher is giving us the results.
5. 1) Rivers, canals, seas, deserts, mountain ranges, island
groups (plural names):
Ex.: The River Danube flows into the Black Sea.
The Canary Islands and the Pyrénées are beautiful.
2) Plural nouns of countries or those that are a union of
states, regions, etc.:
Ex.: the UK, the US, the Netherlands, the Czeck
Republic.
3) names of theatres, cinemas, galleries, museums and
hotels:
Ex.: The British Museum, The Ritz and the Odeon
Cinema are famous places in London.
4) When there’s only one of something:
Ex.: the sun, the moon, the Earth
6. 1) countries, cities, towns, continents,
regions, states, islands:
Ex.: He is from Hong Kong in China, Asia.
2) individual mountains and lakes:
Ex.: Mount Everest is the highest mountain in
the world
◦ Lake Titicaca is in Bolivia
3) roads, streets, parks, shops and
restaurants
Ex.: Harrods is in Brompton Road, not far
from Hyde Park.
7. With school, university, hospital, prison, church :
1) NO ARTICLE: when we think about the
institution and what they are normally used for:
Ex.: His husband is in prison for bank robbery.
My son is in hospital. He’s really ill.
2) ARTICLE THE or A: when we talk about the
building or when we go as a visitor:
Ex.: The prison near my house is horrible.
I walk past the hospital every day on my way to
work.
I was at the hospital visiting my son (I’m not a
patient)
8. NO articles:
With names of people or titles (Mr., Mrs., Doctor,
Princess, King, Queen).
Ex.: Queen Elizabeth is one of the most
important queens in the history of Britain.
Doctor Quinn is very well-known in the country.
BUT: ARTICLE THE with plural names of people:
Ex.: The Clintons are respected by the Americans.