19). With the words taiga, tundra, steppe, prarie.
She always wanted to see the prarie.
20. With names of ships, hotels, newspapers, magazines: the “Astoria”, “The Times”, the “Yermack”.
21). With names of monuments, museums, galleries, libraries, cinemas, theatres: the British Museum, the Tretyakow Gallery, the Nelson Monument, the Bolshoi Theatre, the National Gallery.
22). With names of cardinal points: the North, the East, the West, the South.
23). With nouns of days and months modified by a particularising attribute.
The May of 1945 will always rest in our memories.
24). With nouns modified by a proper noun in the common case.
The Pulkovo observatory is over one hundred years old.
25). If a predicative noun denotes a post which can be occupied by one person at a time either the definite or the zero article is used.
Mr. White was the Dean of our faculty.
Suddenly the director of our school came in.
26). With the nouns son, daughter used predicatively and modified by an of-phrase, though there may be several sons and daughters in the family.
He was a son of a fishman.
27). With nouns in apposition which denote a well-known person or work of art.
Hamlet, the immortal tragedy by Shakespeare, was written in the 17th century.
28). With the nouns, modified by the pronouns both, all.
Both the films were of great interest.
All the pupils are present.
29). With the nouns day, night, morning, evening, afternoon they are modified by a particularizing attribute or when the situation makes them definite.
I’ll never forget the day I met him.
In the expressions “in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening”.
30). With names of seasons modified by a particularizing attribute or when the situation makes them definite.
It happened in the summer of 1990.
31). With the nouns school, college, bed, prison, jail, town when they preserve their concrete meaning and don’t express the purpose for which the objects denoted by these nouns serve.
I left the school at 4 o’clock yesterday.
Mother went to the college yesterday.
His portrait was on the wall beside the bed.
32). With the words dinner, breakfast, lunch, supper if they are modified by a particularizing attribute or when the situation makes them definite.
The dinner we had today was very substantial.
33). With ordinal numerals.
It was the first job of mine.
34). With the word most it serves to form the superlative degree of an adjective.
This is the most interesting chapter in the book.
35). With the names of languages if they are modified by a particularizing attribute and in the construction from the Engish (the French, the German).
It’s a ranslation from the Latin.
When the noun language is mentioned the definite article is used.
To learn the English language is not an easy thing.
36). With the words few, little in the meaning of a) “те немногие, которые”, b) “то небольшое количество, которое”. The expression the few is used with countable nouns, the little is used with uncountable ones.
He was one of the few men of science who never terrified me.
Mary offered to lend the little she had.
37). With cardinal numerals. In such cases the definite article has the meaning of the demonstrative pronoun “those”: the two – те двое.
The two friends travelled together.
38). With the pronoun other in the meaning of “тот другой”.
There are two books here, take one and I’ll take the other.
39). With the adjective last (except the expressions last month, last year, last week, last summer, last spring, last autumn, last winter).
She was the last to pass the examination.
40). With the adjective next in the meaning of “следующий”: the next room, at the next lesson.
41). With the noun number in the meaning “число, количество”.
The number of flowers behind our house is big.
42). With names of higher educational institutions: the Institute of Foreign languages, the Medical Institute, the University.
43). With the noun police which has the form of the singular in the meaning of the plural.
The police arrested the thief.
44). In the expressions of the type: the morev….the more, the more…..the better, the more…the less.
The more we learn, the more we know.
45). With names of diseases.
I have caught the flue.
He is still with the pneumonia.
46). With names of nations (in the meaning of the plural): the British, the Ukrainians, the Chinese, the Portuguese.
47). “All” is used with the definite article when we limit the number of objects spoken about:
All the students of our faculty. All students are optimists.
“Both” always means two concrete objects, therefore it may be used either with the definite article or with the zero article.
48). These attributes may be used with the definite article only: the same, the right (correct) / wrong, the only, the following, the previous, the very, the present, one of the…, most of the…., some of the…., all of the…. .