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I've seen a bird. THE birf was black and white. / There is a table. THE table is painted brown. start learning
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when something that has already been mentionem is refered to again
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The pens I gave you were free samples. / The letters on the top of shelf are for you start learning
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when the person, thing is specified gramatically by means of a defining phrase or a prepositional phrase
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The Titanic, The Queen Mary, The Canberra, The Queen Elizabeth start learning
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The Earth, the Colosseum, the atmosphere, the sky, the sun, the North Pole start learning
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before nouns or objects which are unique
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The Hilton, The Ritz, The Grand Hotel, The Savoy / Brown's Hotel, Leoni's Restaurant, Lloyds Bank start learning
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before names of hotels / THE is not used before names of hotels named after their founders and endins in "'s"
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The British Council, The Red Cross, The Boy Scouts, The Democratic Party, The European Union start learning
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before names of institutions/organizations and political parties
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The BBC, The UN, The EU, The FBI / UNESCO, NATO, NASA start learning
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before abbreviations of names of institutions when we cannot say them as a single word
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The Times, The Mirror, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Economist, The New Yorker/ Time, Newsweek, Life start learning
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before names of some newspapers and magazines
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The Second World War, The French Revolution, The Cold War, The Renaissance, The Victorian Age start learning
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before names of historical events
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The British Museum, The Science Museum, The National Gallery, The Tate Gallery start learning
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before names of museums and galleries
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The Goverment, The Army, The Police, The public, the jury, the audience start learning
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The Black Sea, The Baltic Sea, The Persian Gulf, The Gulf of Mexico start learning
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before names of seas and gulfs
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The Atlantic, The Pacific, The Indian Ocean start learning
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The Nile, The Thames, The Panama Canal, The British Channel start learning
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before names of rivers and canals
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The British Isles, The Bahamas, The Canary Islands start learning
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before names of groups of islands
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The Alps, The Himalayas, The Tatra Mountains start learning
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before names of mountain ranges
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The Sahara, The Gobi, The Kalahari Desert start learning
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The USA, The Republic of Poland, The Argentine Republic, The Czech Republic start learning
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before names of places containing a common noun like republic, kingdom, union
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The Tower of London, The University of Cambrige, The Library ofCongress, The Valley of Kings start learning
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before names or nouns containins the preposition "of"
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The Browns, The Johnsons, The Kennedeys start learning
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before names of people/families in plural
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Tye Americans, the Austrians, the Welsh, the Dutch start learning
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before plural nationality nouns or nationality adjectives ending in -sh, -ch, -ese, -ss
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The rich, the poor, the unemployed, the homeless, the blind start learning
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before adjectives used as a nouns to describe group of people
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I belive in the supernatural. / You're asking me to do the impossible. / Computer technology is moving into the unknown. start learning
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before adjectives denoting an abstract quality (singular)
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The Queen, the King, the President, the Pope, the Dutchess of Winsdor, the Prime Minister start learning
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before titles without name
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He plays the piano. / The violin in really difficult. / I became interested in the trumpet. start learning
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before names of instruments in general
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in the 1950's, in the sixtiee, in the nineteenth ceuntry, in the twenty-first century start learning
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before namee of decades and centuries
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(the) flu, (the) mumps, (the) measles, (the) chikenpox start learning
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before names of certain diseases (optional)
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The gorilla is shy creature. / It won't hurt the brain. / The dog in man's best friend. start learning
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before singular countable nouns to refer to a whole group/class of people, animals, things
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