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Knowing when to use an article can be confusing for English language learners. My students always have trouble with this and often put ‘the’ in front of people’s names. Articles are, in a way, adjectives to the noun; they describe and modify nouns. In this blog post we will be looking at some ways of remembering when to use ‘the’ to help make your English sound more fluent. ‘The’ is used to refer to a definite article to show that the article is specific: ”The book is on the table”, for example. We can physically see that there
is a book on a table and therefore we refer to them as “the book” and “the table”. ‘The’ can be used with non-countable nouns in cases such as ”She jumped into
the water.” Why can we use ‘the’? Because we know that in this context a specific area of water is being referred to. You can use ‘the’ to refer to: 1. Names of rivers, oceans or seas; for example ”the Indian Ocean” |