The (definite article)
Articles
 ∅ (no article)
- Most Languages, names, streets, towns,
cities and countries.
- The school is going to teach Chinese next year
- I live in Russia
- She lives in Blackwell Drive in Cambridge.
- With uncountable nouns, plural nouns and
abstract nouns.
- The main ingredients are rice, milk and sugar.
- I prefer books and newspapers to ebooks.
- We need more information before we decide.
- Individual
mountains, meals, and the words:
bed, school, hospital and prison if they are
being used for their intended purpose.
- I am going to climb Mount Everest
- Come down for breakfast
- She is in prison for stealing
- Before single countable nouns we have talked
about before.
When I got to your house I saw a dog standing by the door. The dog
looked happy.
A/An (Indefinite article)
- Something specific / unique
- Introducing single countable I generally dislike musicals but the one I saw last night was really
nouns for the first time. good.
There is a café on the corner. - The earth is round.
I ate an amazing orange yesterday.
- With an adjective as a generalisation
- Jobs - The rich always have more influence in society than the poor.
She is a lawyer.
- With superlatives
-Before a noun in a general sense That is the best lasagne I have ever eaten.
I want to buy a car
- Ordinal numbers (first, second etc.)
We have an appointment on the third of February.
- Job titles
The president is going to visit the Queen.
- Rivers, seas, oceans, chains of mountains, gulfs
and bays and newspapers
- I am visiting the Sierra Nevada next year, it is a beautiful mountain
range.
- I read The Times newspaper.