Grammar details about ARTICLES 4 by Franco

++THE DEFINITE ARTICLE IS ++NOT ++USED: ++

Before countries, towns, proper names:

• Mr Jones returned to Wales and bought a house in Swansea

• exceptions : The USA, the Sudan, the USSRR, the Smiths (the all family), the Joneses.

• The Mr. Smith would be possible in relative clauses. Like: I don want the Mr Smith who works in the accounts office; I want the other one / the other Mr Smith.

Before abstract nouns except in particular expressions

• Man fear death // The death of the prime Minister was shocking. (more used in its possessive form).

After a noun in the possessive case or a possessive adjective

• The uncle of the boy = the boy´s uncle
• The book is mine = it is my book

Before names of meal

• Breakfast etc

Before parts of the body and articles of clothing

• Raise your right hand
• He took off his coat

NOTICE THIS DIFFERENCE OF EXPRESSIONS

• She seized the child´s collar // She seized the child by _the _collar.
• I patted his shoulder // I patted him on _the _shoulder
• The brick hit JOhn´s face // The brick hit Jhon in _the _face
• He was hit on the head // He was cut in the hand

NOTE THAT IN SOME LANGUAGES THE DEFINITE ARTICLE IS USED BEFORE INDEFINITE PLURAL NOUNS IN ENGLISH NEVER

• _Women _are expected to like housework.
• Big hotels all over the world are very much the same

OMISSION OF THE :

- HOME, CHURCH, MARKET, SCHOOL, HOSPITAL…ETC

• He went home, They arrived home

• She left home, They hurried home
  BUT in descriptions

• We went to the bride´s home

• This was the home of your Queen

• A mud hut was the only home he had ever known
  The same for other words like

• chapel, church, market, college, school, hospital court, prison, work…etc.
  we go to church, we go to_ the market_ (exception when these places are not used for their primary purpose) to buy, we go to court as litigants…etc USE TO to clarify.

• I went to the church to see carvings

• He comes to the school sometimes to speak to the headmaster

THEY ARE AT THE SEA = AT THE SEASIDE
THEY ARE AT SEA = IN A SHIP

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