The: when there is only one of sth (president, moon), when something is mentioned again, when both listener and speaker know what is being referred too, a specific part / aspect of something (beginning), to speak generally about certain groups of singular countable nouns (e.g. inventions, animals), with adjectives referring to general classes of people, with superlatives, with musical instruments, with types of transport which have a fixed timetable, with some countries, like UK, USA, with oceans, mountain ranges, deserts, rivers, with some georgraphical areas (mountains, coast), A / An: when first mentioning a singular countable noun, when referring to any one of several things, when talking about a person's job, with some numbers (instead of one), when it means per in some expressions, e.g. twice __ day, No article: when referring in a general sense to plural countable nouns, when referring in a general sense to uncountable nouns, with most streets, towns, cities and countries, when a town's name is used with a building, in many common expressions, e.g. go __ home, have ___ breakfast, etc,

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