📒 used to refer to somebody/something that has already been mentioned or is easily understood
- There were three questions. The first two were relatively easy but the third one was hard.
- There was an accident here yesterday. A car hit a tree and the driver was killed.
- The heat was getting to be too much for me.
📒 used to refer to somebody/something that is the only, normal or obvious one of their kind
- the Mona Lisa
- the Nile
- the Queen
📒 used when explaining which person or thing you mean
- the house at the end of the street
- The people I met there were very friendly.
- It was the best day of my life.
📒 used to refer to a thing in general rather than a particular example
- He taught himself to play the violin.
- The dolphin is an intelligent animal.
- They placed the African elephant on their endangered list.
📒 used with adjectives to refer to a thing or a group of people described by the adjective
- With him, you should always expect the unexpected.
- the unemployed
- the French
📒 used before the plural of somebody’s last name to refer to a whole family or a married couple
- Don't forget to invite the Jordans.
📒 used with a unit of measurement to mean ‘every’
- My car does forty miles to the gallon.
- You get paid by the hour.
📒 enough of something for a particular purpose
- I wanted it but I didn't have the money.
📒 used with a unit of time to mean ‘the present’
- Why not have the dish of the day?
- She's flavour of the month with him.
📒 used, stressing the, to show that the person or thing referred to is famous or important
- Sheryl Crow? Not the Sheryl Crow?
- At that time London was the place to be.
📒 used to show that two things change to the same degree
- The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became.
- The less said about the whole thing, the happier I'll be.