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    The document discusses usage of definite and indefinite articles with geographical names. It states that articles are not usually used with continent names, areas of continents, country names, city names, street/avenue names, or lake names. Exceptions include using "the" for geographic poles, cardinal directions like the Far East, country names like The Netherlands or The Ukraine, and The Hague as a city name. "The" is used for river, sea, ocean names, mountain ranges, and island groups, but not single mountains or islands. An exercise provides examples of when to use "the" or not with various locations.

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    The document discusses usage of definite and indefinite articles with geographical names. It states that articles are not usually used with continent names, areas of continents, country names, city names, street/avenue names, or lake names. Exceptions include using "the" for geographic poles, cardinal directions like the Far East, country names like The Netherlands or The Ukraine, and The Hague as a city name. "The" is used for river, sea, ocean names, mountain ranges, and island groups, but not single mountains or islands. An exercise provides examples of when to use "the" or not with various locations.

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    The document discusses usage of definite and indefinite articles with geographical names. It states that articles are not usually used with continent names, areas of continents, country names, city names, street/avenue names, or lake names. Exceptions include using "the" for geographic poles, cardinal directions like the Far East, country names like The Netherlands or The Ukraine, and The Hague as a city name. "The" is used for river, sea, ocean names, mountain ranges, and island groups, but not single mountains or islands. An exercise provides examples of when to use "the" or not with various locations.

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    Definite article with

    geographical names

    We do not use articles


    with continents, e.g.
    Europe
    Asia
    North America
    South America
    Africa
    Australia
    2

    We do not usually use


    articles with geographical
    areas, e.g.

    Eastern Europe
    Western Europe
    Central America
    Siberia

    But the is used with:


    the North Pole
    the South Pole
    the Far East
    the Middle East

    We do not use articles


    with names of countries:
    Serbia
    Italy
    England
    Spain
    Germany

    Exceptions:
    The Netherlands
    The Ukraine
    The Sudan
    The Vatican City
    The Czech Republic

    We do not use articles


    with the names of cities,
    towns,
    villages:

    Rome
    Belgrade
    London
    Madrid
    Exception: The Hague

    We do not use articles


    with the names of:
    streets
    avenues
    highways

    We use the with the


    names of rivers, seas and
    oceans:

    The Danube
    The Drina
    The Mediterranean
    The Pacific ocea

    but not with the names of lakes


    9

    We use the with the


    names of mountain
    ranges:

    The Alps
    The Himalayas

    but not with single mountains

    10

    We use the with the


    names of island groups:
    The Bahamas
    but not with single islands.

    11

    Exercise:
    Put in 'the' or /:
    1) They visited a village in ___ Andes.
    2) They went to ___ Philippines on their honeymoon.
    3) ___ Vatican City is in Italy.
    4) Have you ever seen ___ Mount Fuji?
    5) ___ Azores are a group of islands in the Atlantic.
    6) She went to ___United Kingdom to study English.
    7) They drove round ___Corsica.
    8) ___ Australia is a really enormous place.
    9) What countries share a border with ___ Norway?
    10) ___ Greece gets very, very hot in the summer.
    11) ___ Baffin Island is part of Canada.
    12)I've never been to ___ United States.

    12

    13)
    14)
    15)
    16)
    17)
    18)
    19)
    20)

    We went to___ Czech Republic and stayed in Dublin.


    She comes from ___ Netherlands.
    ___ Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
    She always loved skiing in ___ Alps.
    He used to work in ___ India.
    I often go on holiday to ___ Canary Islands.
    Does ___ England have many big cities?
    They loved visiting ___ Serbia.

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