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Definite Article :the"

1. Sports

2. Subjects of Study

3. Unique Nouns

4. Names of: cinemas, theatres, museums, newspapers, magazines,ships, organisations, galleries

5. Names of rivers, seas, groups of islands, mountain ranges, deserts,oceans,canals

   • Countries when they include words such as States, Kingdom, Republic etc.

6. Names of musical instruments and dances (the guitar, the tango)

7. Names of families and nationalities ending in –sh, -ch or – ese (the French, the Japanese etc.). other plural nationalities are used with or without the (the Greeks)

8. With titles (the President, the King of Spain)

9.  With adjectives/adverbs in the superlative form

10.  With the words morning, afternoon, evening and night

11.  With historical periods and events