Page 17 - BASIC GRAMMAR PRACTICE
P. 17
Nouns, adjectives and adverbs
10 No article or the before names of places
• a or the is not usually used before names of villages, towns, streets, cities,
countries or continents.
She lives in Paris.
We went to India.
• the is used before names of seas, rivers, groups of islands or mountains,
kingdoms, republics, deserts, plural names of countries: the Atlantic Ocean,
the River Thames, the Netherlands, the Arctic (land and sea), the Antarctic
(land and sea), the Alps, the United States of America, the United Arab
Emirates, the Sahara, the United Kingdom, the Nile, the Gobi Desert.
Practice
Write the names of the places below in two columns, those with the and those
without the.
River Seine Philippines Algeria
Luxembourg Sweden Rocky Mountains
Istanbul Oxford Street St Lawrence River
Pyrenees Bombay Barcelona
Chile South China Sea People's Republic of Mongolia
Solomon Islands Hamburg Pacific Ocean
with the without the
River Seme Luxembourg
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