Article 'THE'

Apa kabar BBIO lovers? saya yakin semua dalam keadaan sehat selalu. Pada materi dasar I,
telah dijelaskan tentang pemakaian article a, an dan juga the. Akan tetapi kelihatannya
masih banyak yang bingung tentang pemakaian ‘the’. Di bawah ini ada penjelasan yang saya
yakin bisa mengurangi kebingungan BBIO lovers dalam menggunakan article ‘the’.

Use ‘the’ with ... Don’t use ‘the’ with ...

Ocean, rivers, seas, gulfs, plural lakes Singular lakes: example; Lake Geneva,
Example: the Red Sea, the Atlantic Lake Eric
Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the Great Lake

Mountains: Mounts:
The Rocky Mountains, the Andes Mount Vesuvius, Mount McKinley

Earth, moon Planets, constellations

the earth, the moon Example: Venus, Mars

schools, colleges, universities when the Schools, colleges, universities when the
phrase begins with school, etc: phrase begins with proper noun
example; the university of Florida,, the Example; Stetson University, Cooper’s
College of Arts and Sciences Art School

ordinal numbers before nouns Cardinal number after nouns

example; the first world war, the third Example: chapter three, World War One
chapter

wars (except world wars)

example: the Crimean War, the Korean
War

countries with more the one words Countries with one word
example: the United States, the Central China, France, Indonesia
African Republic

Continents
Example: Europe, Africa, South America

States
Example: Florida, Ohio, California

Sports
Example: baseball, basketball

General areas of subject matter

Example: sociology, mathematics
Holidays
Example: Thanksgiving, Idul Fitri, Idul
Adha