(1) the和可数名词单数连用,表示一类人或物,如:the fern(蕨类), the wallflower
(2) 序数词之前必须用the,如:the first woman, the nineteenth century,但前面有物主代词时除外,如 my first baby.
(3) 形容词最高级之前必须用the(有物主代词时除外),如:the largest city, the most advanced technology
(4) of连接的名词前多用the, 如:the development of the watch
(5) 世界上独一无二的东西前应加the, 如:the globe(地球),the equator(赤道), the moon, the sun
在下列情况下,一般不用the:
但是在表示海洋、海峡、江、河、山脉、群岛等专有名词时要加上the the Great Lakes(美国五大湖), the Changjiang River(长江)
(2) 无特指的不可数名词前,如:algebra(代数学), advertising, accounting(会计学)
(3) 表示类别的复数名词前,如:Historians believe that…, Amphibians(两栖动物) hatch from…
(4) 一些固定词组中,如:in history, in nature, at work, at home , go to school, go to bed, in bed
乘车的词组:
by train(乘火车), by car (乘汽车), by bicycle(骑脚踏车), by bus (乘公共汽车), by land(由陆路), by sea (由海路), by water (由水路) , by air (通过航空) on foot (步行), by plane(乘飞机), by ship (乘船),打球的词组:
play tennis, play baseball, play basketball注意:表示职位的词之前的冠词有无均可, 如:He was elected (the)chairman of the committee。 不可数名词的限定词和不可数名词原形连用, 下面这些限定词后面一定跟不可数名词:much, a large amount of, a great deal of, a wealth of(大量的、丰富的) little /a little /less /least, a piece /sheet /slice /bar of, 属不可数名词专用另外一些词(词组)如such, some /any (of), most (of), a lot of, lots of, the rest of, plenty of等既可接可数名词又可接不可数名词。有些形容词本身就具有“比……年长”、“ 比……优越”等含义,因此也就没有比 较级 和最高级。
比如: inferior, superior, senior, anterior。这些形容词往往和 to连用 ,而不和than连用。