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Articles : Noms avec et sans 'the'

Names with and without the.

A/ We do not use 'the' with names of most streets/roads/squares/parks etc.:

Union Street (not 'the...') / Fifth Avenue/ Piccadilly Circus/ Hyde Park
Blackrock Road/ Broadway/ Times Square/ Waterloo Bridge

Many names (especially names of important buildings and institutions) are two words:

Kennedy Airport/ Cambridge University

The first word is usually the name of a person ('Kennedy') or a place ('Cambridge'). We do not usually use 'the' with names like these. Some more examples:

Victoria Station (not 'the...') / Edinburgh Castle/ London Zoo/ Westminster Abbey/ Buckingham Palace/ Canterbury Cathedral

But we say 'the White House', 'the Royal Palace', because 'white' and 'royal' are not names like 'Kennedy' and 'Cambridge'. This is only a general rule and there are exceptions.

B/ Most other names (of places, buildings etc.) have names with the:

These places usually have names with the:

Hotels/restaurants/pubs = the Station Hotel, the Bombay Restaurant, the Red Lion (pub)
theatres/cinemas = the Palace Theatre, the Odeon Cinema

Museums/galleries = the British Museum, the Tate Gallery

other buildings = the Empire State Building, the Festival Hall, the White House.
Oceans/seas/canals = the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal
also:

Newspapers = the Washington Post, the Financial Times
organisations = the European Community, the BBC (= the British Broadcasting Corporation)

Sometimes we leave out the noun: the Hilton (Hotel), the Sahara (Desert)

Sometimes the name is only the + noun: the Vatican (in Rome), the Sun (British newspaper)

Names with ...of... usually have the. For example:

the Bank of England/ the Tower of London/ the Museum of Modern Art
the Houses of Parliament/ the Great Wall of China/ the Tropic of Capricorn
the Gulf of Mexico/ the University of London (but the London University)

C/ Many shops, restaurants, hotels, banks etc. are named after the people who started them. These names end in -'s or -s. We do not use 'the' with these names:

Lloyds Bank (not the Lloyds Bank)/ McDonalds/ Jack's Guest House/ Harrods (shop)/

Churches are often named after saints:

St John's Church (not the St John's Church)/ St Paul's Cathedral

D/ Names of companies, airlines etc. are usually without 'the':

Fiat (not the Fiat) Sony Kodak British Airways IBM

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4. is in Baker Street.

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6. Frank is a student at .

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8. If you're looking for a good pub, I would recommend .

9. is at the entrance to New York harbour.

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