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      I've seen a bird. THE birf was black and white. / There is a table. THE table is painted brown.    börja lära sig
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      when something that has already been mentionem is refered to again   
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      The pens I gave you were free samples. / The letters on the top of shelf are for you    börja lära sig
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      when the person, thing is specified gramatically by means of a defining phrase or a prepositional phrase   
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      The Titanic, The Queen Mary, The Canberra, The Queen Elizabeth    börja lära sig
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      The Earth, the Colosseum, the atmosphere, the sky, the sun, the North Pole    börja lära sig
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      before nouns or objects which are unique   
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      The Hilton, The Ritz, The Grand Hotel, The Savoy / Brown's Hotel, Leoni's Restaurant, Lloyds Bank    börja lära sig
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      before names of hotels / THE is not used before names of hotels named after their founders and endins in "'s"   
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      The British Council, The Red Cross, The Boy Scouts, The Democratic Party, The European Union    börja lära sig
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      before names of institutions/organizations and political parties   
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      The BBC, The UN, The EU, The FBI / UNESCO, NATO, NASA    börja lära sig
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      before abbreviations of names of institutions when we cannot say them as a single word   
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      The Times, The Mirror, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Economist, The New Yorker/ Time, Newsweek, Life    börja lära sig
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      before names of some newspapers and magazines   
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      The Second World War, The French Revolution, The Cold War, The Renaissance, The Victorian Age    börja lära sig
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      before names of historical events   
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      The British Museum, The Science Museum, The National Gallery, The Tate Gallery    börja lära sig
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      before names of museums and galleries   
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      The Goverment, The Army, The Police, The public, the jury, the audience    börja lära sig
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      The Black Sea, The Baltic Sea, The Persian Gulf, The Gulf of Mexico    börja lära sig
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      before names of seas and gulfs   
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      The Atlantic, The Pacific, The Indian Ocean    börja lära sig
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      The Nile, The Thames, The Panama Canal, The British Channel    börja lära sig
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      before names of rivers and canals   
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      The British Isles, The Bahamas, The Canary Islands    börja lära sig
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      before names of groups of islands   
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      The Alps, The Himalayas, The Tatra Mountains    börja lära sig
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      before names of mountain ranges   
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      The Sahara, The Gobi, The Kalahari Desert    börja lära sig
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      The USA, The Republic of Poland, The Argentine Republic, The Czech Republic    börja lära sig
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      before names of places containing a common noun like republic, kingdom, union   
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      The Tower of London, The University of Cambrige, The Library ofCongress, The Valley of Kings    börja lära sig
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      before names or nouns containins the preposition "of"   
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      The Browns, The Johnsons, The Kennedeys    börja lära sig
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      before names of people/families in plural   
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      Tye Americans, the Austrians, the Welsh, the Dutch    börja lära sig
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      before plural nationality nouns or nationality adjectives ending in -sh, -ch, -ese, -ss   
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      The rich, the poor, the unemployed, the homeless, the blind    börja lära sig
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      before adjectives used as a nouns to describe group of people   
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      I belive in the supernatural. / You're asking me to do the impossible. / Computer technology is moving into the unknown.    börja lära sig
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      before adjectives denoting an abstract quality (singular)   
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      The Queen, the King, the President, the Pope, the Dutchess of Winsdor, the Prime Minister    börja lära sig
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      before titles without name   
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      He plays the piano. / The violin in really difficult. / I became interested in the trumpet.    börja lära sig
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      before names of instruments in general   
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      in the 1950's, in the sixtiee, in the nineteenth ceuntry, in the twenty-first century    börja lära sig
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      before namee of decades and centuries   
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      (the) flu, (the) mumps, (the) measles, (the) chikenpox    börja lära sig
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      before names of certain diseases (optional)   
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      The gorilla is shy creature. / It won't hurt the brain. / The dog in man's best friend.    börja lära sig
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      before singular countable nouns to refer to a whole group/class of people, animals, things   
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