The use of articles in the names of places, some buildings, public organizations
| Names of places, buildings, etc. | The definite article | No article |
| Historical events | the French Revolution | |
| Public / Political Organizations | the Senate, the Houses of Parliament, the United Nations, theGovernment, the FBI, the BBC, the CNN | NATO, Parliament, Congress |
| Public / Historical buildings, Churches, monuments | the Bank of England, the Old Bailey, the Royal Exchange, the Winter Palace, theTower of London, the Bronze Horse Man, the Sphinx, the Taj Mahal, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Eiffel Tower | Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Stonehenge |
| Documents, conferences, prizes, awards | theConstitution, the Washington Summit, the Yalta Conference, the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Grammy Award | |
| Parties | the Labour Party, the Tory | |
| Names of newspapers and periodicals | the Times, the Washington Post | (foreign) Pravda, Der Spiegel, USA Today, Variety, Newsweek, Time, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Vogue |
| Businesses and Chains of Shops | General Motors, Sony, Shell | |
| Ships, Trains, Spacecraft | theOrient Express, theTitanic | Apollo, Challenger |
| Theatres, Cinemas | the Globe, theBolshoy, the Odeon, the Arbat | Her Majesty’s, Carnegie Hall, City Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
| Museums | theBritish Museum, the hermitage, the Tate Gallery | |
| Parks | The Botanical Gardens, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the London Gardens, the Montreal Botanical Garden, the Tivoli Gardens, the Snowdonia National Park | Hyde Park, St. James’s Park, |
| Schools, colleges, Universities | the University of London, the George Washington University, the John Hopkins University | Carnegy College, London University, Manchester Grammar School |
| Restaurants | the Cage Royal | Leoni’s |
| Hotels | theHilton | Brown’s, Holiday Inn |
| Stations and Airports | Heathrow, Sheremetyevo | |
| The names Counties, States, Streets, Squares, bridges, highways | but the High street, theMall, theStrand, the Arbat, the Cathedral Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Pan American Highway, the FDR Drive, names of streets in foreign countries: the Rue de Rivoli, the Via Manzoni | Yorkshire, Texas, Oxford Street , Fifth Avenue, Trafalgar Square, London Bridge |
| Holidays | The Fourth of July, the Cherry Festival, the Jazz festival | Christmas, New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, Mardi Grass |
Special difficulties in the use of articles