Definition: A member of the class of "determiners" that restricts or particularizes a noun, it is used to restrict the meaning of a noun to make it refer to something that is known by both the speaker or writer and the listener or reader. Articles in English are invariable. That is, they do not change according to the gender or number of the noun they refer to. "The" is the definite article is English.
For example:
- He's gone to the shops.
* Here the listener knows which shops I mean
You use "the" when you know that the listener knows or can work out what particular person/thing you are talking about.
For example:
- The apple you ate was rotten.
- Did you lock the car?
For example:
- She's got two children; a girl and a boy. The girl's eight and the boy's fourteen.
- An elephant and a mouse fell in love. The mouse loved the elephant's long trunk, andthe elephant loved the mouse's tiny nose.
For example:
- the North Pole, the equator.
For example:
- the Nile, the Pacific, the English channel
For example:
- the rain, the sun, the wind, the world, the earth, the White House etc..
For example:
- the Japanese, the old
- The car has changed our way of living.
For example:
- the highest building, the first page, the last chapter.
For example:
- The man who wrote this book is famous.
- My house is the one with a blue door.
For example:
- He grew up in the seventies
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