A definite article comes before a singular noun that is used as a representative of an entire class of things. This is especially common with the names of animals, trees, inventions, musical instruments, and parts of the body. The tiger is the largest cat. My favorite tree is the oak. The Wright Bothers invented the airplane. The oboe is a woodwind instrument. The heart pumps blood.
A definite article is used before expressions with an ordinal number. No article is used before expressions with cardinal numbers. the first one the fourth chapter Chapter Four the seventh volume Volume Seven
A definite article is used before decades and centuries. the 1930’s the fifties the 1800’s the twenty-first century
Native English speakers use the word GO almost daily. Try using some of these collocations in your everyday speech and learn how it can go into virtually any sentence. Can you think of any other collocations using the word go? Let us know with a comment!
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