THE ARTICLE

A/AN article (Indefinite Article):

- with singular countable nouns: a book, an eagle

- with jobs: a teacher

THE article (Definite Article):

- with unique nouns: the Earth, the Moon, the Sun

- with cinemas, hotels, theatre, museums, newspapers/magazines, ships, institutions,
galleries (The Plaza, The Savoy, The Palladium, The Prado, The Independent, The
British Council, The Tate Gallery)
- with rivers, seas, groups of islands/states, mountain ranges, deserts, oceans, canals,
names or nouns with OF (The Nile, The Black Sea, The Shetland Isles, The Himalayas,
The Sahara Desert, The Atlantic, The Manchester Canal, The Valley of the Kings)
- with musical instruments, dances (the piano, the samba)
- with names of families, nationalities ending in SH, CH, ESE (The Hunters, The Dutch,
The English, The Japanese)
- with titles (The King BUT King Carlos)
- with adjectives (plural nouns): the poor, the young, the blind
- with the superlative degree of adjectives: the best
- with beach, cinema, city, coast, countryside, earth, ground, jungle, radio, pub,
seaside, sky, station, shop, theatre, village, water, world
- with morning, afternoon, evening ( in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening)
- with historical events ( The Cold War BUT Worls War II)
- with only, first, last ( the only one, the first day, the last minute)

Zero Article:
- with proper nouns:
- with names of sports, games, activities, days, months, holidays, colours, drinks,
meals, languages ( football, hide-and-seek, reading, Monday, March, Easter, red, wine,
breakfast, lunch, dinner/supper, English BUT The English language)
- with names of countries, cities, streets, squares, bridges, parks, stations, individual
mountains/islands/lakes, continents (England, London, Trafalgar Square, London
Bridge, Regent Park, Mount Everest, Sicily, Lake Victoria, Africa)
- with possessive adjectives: my project
- with two-word names whose first word is the name of a person or place (Winsdor
Castle)
- with pubs, restaurants, shops, banks, hotels, which have the name of their founder
or end in S/' S (Tom' s bar)
- with the words bed, church, college, court, hospital, prison, school, university(when
we use them with the purpose for which they exist)
- with the words work, mother, father, home, by bus, by train, by plane, by taxi, by car
- with diseases( we say flu/the flu, measles/the measles, mumps/the mumps BUT
malaria