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The article, With n. modified by adjectives in the superlative degree.
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The article
The definite article the
Class nouns
- N. denotes an object which the speaker singles out.
a) Speakers know what particular object is meant.
b) The speaker uses an attribute pointing out a particular object.
c) The situation itself makes the object definite. This or that - этот.
- Unic things (The sun, the moon, the universe) or a class
But with certain aspect in which the moon (etc) appears to us we use a/an
- Generic sense.
Man is used woth no article
woman is used with "the" article
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N. of material: a definite part of the substance is meant.
The meat was good and White Fang was hungry
Abstract n: modified by a particularizing attribute or situation is definite.
He was the courage and force of his father.
Proper n.
- Names denoting the whole family.
The Dashwoods were now settled at Berton.
- Names modified by a particularizing attribute.
You're not the Andrew Manson I married.
- N. denoting professions.
The painter Gainsborough.
Geographical names.
- Republic, union, kingdom, states.
- G.n. modified by a particularizing attribute.
- Names of oceans, seas, rivers.
- Names of mountain chains.
- Names of group of islands.
- Towns, countries, provinces.
- Hotels, restaurant/pubs, theatres, cinemas, museums/galleries, ships, newspapers, magazines.
- Cardinal points: the North..
- Days and month are modified by a particularizing attribute.
- A n. Modified be a proper n. in the common case.
Last summer I visited the Tretyakov Gallery.
Zero article/some, etc
N. of material.
Zero: General sense, certain material.
Honey ia a wholesome
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Proper n.
- Names of people.
Sarie looked at Lenny.
- N. denoting military ranks, titles (academician, professor, doctor, count, lord etc.)
Colonel Brown.
- N. expressing relationship.
Aunt Polly.
- N. Expressing relationship between members of family.
BUT If other people's relations are meant -> The.
The son as clever as the father.
- With old, young, poor, dear, lazy, little, honest.
BUT When modified by other adjectives and participles of people -> the.
The astonished Tom could not say a word.
Geographical names:
- (continents, countries, states etc. islands, cities, towns etc. mountains) England, France, Moscow, London; North America, Latin America, central Asia.
- If there is a word Lake.
Lake Ontario, but the Ontario.
- with mountain peaks.
- Single islands.
- Streets and squares. ! The High Street, the Strands, the Mall.
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- With n. modified by adjectives in the superlative degree.
Miss Tox had the softest voice that ever heard.
- Many, none, most + of
Most of the gentelmen looked both angry and uncomfortable.
- Same + wrong (не тот), right (тот), very (именно тот, тот самый).
I do wish we had not opened the door of the wrong room.
- With substantivized adjectives and participlies.
Only the simple and the humble were abroad at that early hour.