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It’s time to go to bed.

I watched a car as it came up our road. The car stopped outside our house and a man got out.

the cinema, the theatre, the opera, the circus, the beach, the station

the Smiths, the Windsors

the piano, the guitar, the flute

" the king, the queen, the prince, the president, the Pope but Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, Prince Charles (NAME!)"

Eistein’s theory of relativity, Broca’s area, Wegener’s hypothesis...

30 miles a (or to the) gallon

40 km an hour

twice a day

What time do you leave home?

Victoria Station, Kennedy Airport Oxford University London Zoo Buckingham Palace, but the White House the Royal Palace (ADJECTIV)

the Dominion of Canada, the New York City, the United States

mathematics, biology, history, computer science

"Waterloo Station, Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport"

The Malay Archipelago

Barclays Bank, Lloyds Bank, but The Bank of England (OF!!!)

Tower Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Westminster Bridge, London Bridge

The Empire State Building

names of castles, palaces and parks

The English Channel, The Gulf of Mexico, The Straight of Giblaltar

St John’s Church, St Paul’s Church (named after saints)

the ABC, the Odeon

London, Miami, but The Hague

Europe, Asia

Italy, France, but The USA, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines (...)

the Sahara

Niagara Falls

the black forest

the Middle East, the West, the Near East

the Hilton, the Station Hotel, but: Claridge’s, Brown's (named after people...)

the Niagara Falls Hotel

a headache, a sore throat, (a) cold, (a) backache / (a) stomach-ache / (a) toothache / (an) earache, (the)measles, (the) mumps, shingles, (the) flu, gout, hepatitis, (high) blood pressure

the Hawaiian Islands, the Hebrides, or the Canary Islands **but singl island without the

Coney Island, Key West, Long Island **but island chains: the

John is a doctor. But I’d better go to see the doctor. (we mean “ our” doctor)

Lake Titicaca, Lake Macbride, Lake Geneva, Exception: a group of lakes like the Great Lakes, and the Lake of Constance, the Lake of Lucerne

Chinese, English

the Library of Congress

breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, supper but + adjectiv a big lunch, We're meeting for lunch tomorrow. I had a big lunch today.

the Metropolitan museum

the British Museum, the Tate Gallery

"the British, the Dutch, the English, the French, the Irish, the Welsh. But: (the) Germans (german+s), (the) Americans (American+s)"

Chinese, English, Spanish, Russian

the Times, the Washington Post, the Evening Standard

the Pacific

The Iberian Peninsula

"The Bank of England, the Great Wall of China, The Houses of Parliament, the Museum of Modern Art, The Tower of London"

the Equator, the North Pole

the Andes, the Alps, the Rockies or unusual names like the Matterhorn but single montains without the

the Bombay Restaurant, the Red Lion (pub) but Maxim’s, Macdonald’s, Luigi’s Restaurant -are named after people who started them, so no article

the Nile

the Mediterranean Sea

Mount Everest, Mont Blanc, Bear Mountain but ranges: the

Bavaria, ohio

Fifth Avenue, Washington Blvd., Main St., Sheppard Rd., Broadway, Main Street, Oxford Street, Oxford Cirkus but: The Mall, The High Street

the Middle Ages, the Regan era, the Dark Ages

the Palace Theatre, the National Theatre, the Globe Theatre

the Doppler effect, the Hubble telescope, the Kelvin scale.

Yale University, Columbia University, Oxford University **but Exception: of-forms the University of Michigan, the University of Hawaii

80p a kilo

Is he still at work?