Use THE, unique nouns, names of cinemas, hotels, theatres, museums, newspapers, magazines, ships, institutions and galleries, names of rivers, seas, oceans, deserts and canals, groups of islands or states, mountain ranges, geographical regions and directions, place names containing “of”, musical instruments and dances, names of families, nationalities ending in -sh, -ch, -ese and some plural nationalities, adjectives used as plural nouns (to refer to groups of people), the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs, certain common place nouns referring to the environment or surroundings, seasons (optional in many cases), historical events and historical periods, ordinal numbers and adjectives such as only, first, last, Omit THE, proper nouns, names of sports, games and activities, days, months and holidays, colours, drinks and meals, languages (when not followed by the word language), most country names, cities, streets, squares and parks, individual mountains, islands, lakes and continents, possessive adjectives, two-word names whose first word is a person or place name, businesses named after their founders ending in -s or -’s, institutions when referring to their main purpose, the word work meaning the place of employment, the words home, father, mother when referring to one’s own family, means of transport after by.

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