In addition to the word Street we have a good many terms that refer to streets: Avenue, Crescent, Gardens, Place, Road, Square, Terrace, Ways and Bridge, Circle, Circus, Hill
Each word in the name of a street starts with a capital letter and receives equal stress:
 Oxford Street, Stanley Avenue, Elgin Crescent, Norton Gardens, Panmure Place, Victoria Road, Berkley Square, Mayfield Way.
In the Oxford road, the Dover road, the North road with road as a common noun, we mention ordinary main roads or motorways; the road goes to Oxford, to Dover, to the North and so on.
There are a few streets in almost every town that take the but without the word Street: the Mall, the Strand, the Haymarket.

The calendar:
The names of seven days of the week and the twelve months of the year are proper nouns, they do not take the:
 Monday, Friday, Saturday, January, April, August, December
Special seasons and days are proper nouns; without the:
 Christmas, Easter, Lent, Ramadan, Passover, Labour Day, May Day
The seasons of the year are common nouns, usually without the:
 Spring, summer, autumn, winter
In accordance with the general rule, we use the when a day, month or season has a defining phrase or clause after it:
 The first Sunday in June, the Christmas before John was born, the April of 1985, the Saturday after next

Historical events and documents:
These often have a prepositional phrase in the name; whether do or not the precedes the name of the event or document normally, personal possessive nouns excepted:
 The Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, the Great Charter, The Treaty of Vienna, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance

Newspapers and magazines:
The is often the first word in the title:
 The Times, he Guardian, The Farmer’s weekly.
When the title is a personal possessive name, the is not used:
 Collier’s Magazine, Stubbs´Magazine, Old Moore´s Almanac
nor when the title consists of one word only:
 Vogue, Punch, Look, Woman, Playboy
Professional magazines generally, do take the:
 The Lancet, the Teacher, the Motorist, the Economist

Nationalities:
When we refer to a whole population in general terms (the British, the French) we need a plural verb: The Dutch are the people of the Netherlands. Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish are spoken as national languages in more than one country. However, most of the national adjectives in the chart also serve as noun that name the language: We need a Greek typewriter if we want to write in Greek. Reference to national identity is very often by the adjective: Mary is an English girl. She is English. A Japanese business man was in our office. The Aphrodite is a Greek ship.
A Chinese, a Finn, A Dane, a Pole refer to either a man or a woman. However, we generally assume that the speaker refers to a man, if the context does not clearly imply a woman; we can say. Ships and boats:
These usually have names and the precedes them:
 the Marie Celeste, the Queen Elizabeth, the Blue Dolphin
So, we can show the difference between Queen Elizabeth and Windsor Castle and other items of the same name, e.g. ships, hotels etc.



CONTENTS.


Proper nouns ........................................................................ 1
Proper nouns with “the” .................................................... 2
Personal names .................................................................... 2
Personal titles without a person’s name ...................... 2
Unique items ........................................................................ 3
Planets and stars ................................................................ 3
Geographical names ........................................................... 3
Continents, countries, cities, towns .............................. 4
Oceans, rivers, seas .......................................................... 4
Languages ............................................................................. 5
A public places .................................................................... 5
Streets and roads .............................................................. 6
The calendar ........................................................................ 6
Historical events and documents ................................... 6
Newspapers and magazines .............................................. 7
Nationalities ......................................................................... 7
Ships and boats ................................................................... 7
References ...........................................................................