Protected: Templates

for dates

for decades

the Persian Gulf
the Bay of Bengal
the Sahara Desert

for wars

the Vietnam War
the First World War

for cinemas, theatres and museums

the Odeon
the National Theatre
the Louvre

for organisations

the FBI
the police

for newspapers

the Telegraph
the Washington Post

for unique nouns

the Pope
the Colosseum

for positions and locations

the top of the page
the end of the street

for superlatives

the quickest route
the cheapest option

for general everyday things that are part of our daily lives

I always read the newspaper
on the train to work

for things that are universally known because they are part
of our physical environment and natural world

We lay on the grass and
looked at the stars

before uncountable nouns to mean enough

I don’t have the time or
the patience for crosswords

for adjectives when used as plural nouns to describe
groups of people

I think the rich should pay higher
taxes to help the poor
The Spanish are known for taking
siestas in the afternoon

before singular nouns to represent all of those nouns that exist
(more commonly used in writing)

Our lives have changed beyond
measure thanks to the computer
The panda is becoming an
increasingly rare animal

for the noun of noun phrases

the end of an era
the works of Shakespeare