ARTICLES - 04

I
1. I am going to the post office to buy some stamps.

2. The doctor hasn't arrived yet.

[Said of people or things that are known to the speaker and the hearer alike]

II

1. The earth revolves around the sun.

2. The Prime Minister arrives tomorrow in Kerala to inaugurate the University.

[Said of of the person or the thing the only of which exists such as the sun, the moon, the sky, the earth, the evening star, the equator, the stars, the poles, the universe, the world, the capital of India, the Prime Minister, the principal of a college, the year 1975 ]

III

1. Do you know how to play the guitar?

2. My father used to play the violin.

[THE is usually used before the names of musical instruments.]

IV

1. Sajini is one of the brightest students in the school.

[THE is used before superlative words]

V

1. The more she earns, the less she spends.

2. The more gifts she received, the more she craved.

3. Gayathri is the more intelligent of his two sisters.

[THE is used to compare two things that increase or decrease in the same proportion]

VI

1. The rich should help the poor.

2. The young of today are more intelligent than those of yesterday.

3. The helpless and the poor are to be helped by the rich and the wise.

poor = സാധുവായ, ദരിദ്രനായ
the poor = ദരിദ്രര്‍
rich = പണക്കാരനായ
the rich = പണക്കാര്‍
wise = ബുദ്ധിമാനായ
the wise = ബുദ്ധിമാന്മാര്‍

[THE is used to make an adjective into a noun such as similarly: the aged, the blind, the brave, the dead, the deaf, the disabled, the educated, the elderly, the free, the handicapped, the homeless, the hungry, the injured, the living, the needy, the old, the oppressed, the powerful, the sick, the starving, the strong, the uneducated, the unemployed, the weak, the wealthy, the wounded, the young]

VII
1. The Hindus consider the Ganges a holy river.

2. The North Sea is situated between the British Isles and North-west Cetnral Europe.

3. The Pacific is the largest ocean in the world.

4. Have you heard of the Suez Canal?

5. The Death Velley is in southeast California.

6. The largest desert in the world is the Sahara.

7. There are many dark pines in the Black Forest.

8. The Persian Gulf is a major oil shipping lane.

[THE is used before the names of rivers, seas, oceans, canals, valleys, deserts, forests, gulfs]