• Before a particular person or thing • One already referred to
• ______ book you want is available.
• Let us go to ________ theatre.
• He shouted at her and ______ girl cried.
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• Singular noun represents a ‘whole class’
• ______ cow is ____ useful animal.
• ______ horse is _____ noble animal.
• _____ woman is more sensitive than ____ man.
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• Before some proper names of places
• Oceans & seas the Bay of Bengal
• Rivers the Ganges, the river Krishna
• Canals the Buckingham canal
• Deserts the Sahara, the Thar
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• Before some proper names of places
• Groups of Islands the West Indies
• Mountain Ranges the Himalayas
• A few countries the Indian Republic the United Kingdom the Netherlands the US
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• Before the names of certain books
• The Vedas
• The Bhagavad-Gita
• The Koran
• The Bible
BUT Vyasa’s Mahabharata
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• Before names of things that are unique of their kind
• The sun
• The sky
• The earth
• The ocean
• The sea
• The moon
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• With Superlative forms..
• Burz Khalifa is _____ tallest building.
• The Nile is _____ longest river.
• This is _____ best book.
• Mumbai is ____ most expensive place.
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• With Ordinal numbers..
• Babu Rajendra Prasad was _____ first President of India.
• _____ fourth chapter of this book is very interesting.
• He was ______ second person to arrive.
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• Before a noun (with emphasis) to give the force of a Superlative..
• Virat Kohli is ____ man in the team.
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• As an Adverb with Comparatives..
• The more you practise, ____ more efficient you become.
• The more we succeed, ____ happier we become.
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If you know one language, learning another is
EASY…
A Foreign Language
can be best learnt
by
REPETITION Sreeram’s