when we mention something for the first time, when we mean ‘one’, when we name a job, when we talk about frequency, rates and speeds etc., when the things or people were already mentioned, or when we know which things or people we are talking about, when a noun is made specific by details we give after it, when there is only one of something, when we talk about places in a town where we commonly go, when we use superlatives, when we describe something in general (with plural or uncountable nouns), with home, work, bed, hospital, school, university, prison when we speak in general, with names of meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), with names of years, months and days of the week, with noun + number, with TV (e.g. I saw it on ______TV.), with next and last + time expression, with most names of places, such as continents, countries, cities or towns, with names of countries that are plural or that include words such as State, Republic, or Kingdom

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