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Definite Article The

The article introduces the definite article "the" in English and provides examples of its uses: 1. "The" is used to refer to something already mentioned or known to both the speaker and listener, even if not explicitly mentioned before. 2. "The" is used in sentences that define or identify a particular person or object. 3. "The" is used to refer to objects regarded as unique, such as the sun, moon, or world.

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Definite Article The

The article introduces the definite article "the" in English and provides examples of its uses: 1. "The" is used to refer to something already mentioned or known to both the speaker and listener, even if not explicitly mentioned before. 2. "The" is used in sentences that define or identify a particular person or object. 3. "The" is used to refer to objects regarded as unique, such as the sun, moon, or world.

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Definite article THE Articles in English are invariable.

That is, they do not change according to the gender or number of the noun they refer to, e.g. the boy, the woman, the children 'The' is used: 1. to refer to something which has already been mentioned. An elephant and a mouse fell in love. The mouse loved the elephant's long trunk, and the elephant loved the mouse's tiny nose. . when both the speaker and listener know what is being talked about, even if it has not been mentioned before. '!here's the bathroom"' '#t's on the first floor.' $. in sentences or clauses where we define or identify a particular person or ob%ect: The man who wrote this book is famous. '!hich car did you scratch"' 'The red one. &y house is the one with a blue door.' '. to refer to ob%ects we regard as uni(ue: the sun, the moon, the world ). before superlatives and ordinal numbers: *see Ad%ectives+ the highest building, the first page, the last chapter. ,. with ad%ectives, to refer to a whole group of people: the -apanese *see .ouns / .ationalities+, the old 0. with names of geographical areas and oceans: the 1aribbean, the 2ahara, the Atlantic 3. with decades, or groups of years: she grew up in the seventies

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