🔥 THE RULES! When do we use “THE” in English? (And when DON’T we?)
When do we need to use the word “THE“ in English? And when must we NOT use it? And what are the rules?... Watch this video to find out!
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro: When to use the word THE in English
00:18 Pronunciation of the word THE
1:15 When don’t we use the word THE in English
5:59 Common mistakes with THE
7:30 When we need to use the word THE
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► TRANSCRIPTION
So much confusion. Most of my students use “the“ when they shouldn’t use “the“ and don’t use “the“ when they should use “the“. So how do we know when to use it?
Before I give you some rules on when to use the and when not to use the in English, I want to tell you about two different ways we can pronounce this simple word. First, we have the, and there is also the pronunciation the. Now it all depends what the next word begins with. If the next word begins with a vowel, we say the. The elephant, the octopus, the owl. But if the next word begins with a consonant, we use the pronunciation the. The building, the table, the boy, the girl.
Okay, I got over 100 questions about the when I asked you about it on YouTube. So let’s start with the first one, the big one. When don’t we use the.
Meals like breakfast, lunch and dinner? Have you had lunch yet? Do you want to go out for dinner tomorrow night? I have breakfast at 8am. When we’re talking about meals, we don’t use the word the.
Compass directions. When we’re talking about directions, we don’t use the word the like birds fly south for the winter. It’s the direction that they are going. However, when we’re talking about a particular region, then we use the word the. For example, I am from the north of England. They pronounce some words differently in the south.
Proper Nouns What is a proper noun? A proper noun is something like a name of a person, a city, a month, a day, things that we normally use a capital letter for in English. And we don’t use the word the for those. My English teacher is Greg, not the Greg. I bought it on Amazon. I didn’t buy it on the Amazon. Greg bought it on Amazon and it will be delivered on Tuesday. No the in any of those situations. Why did I use Amazon as an example there? Well, keep watching and you’ll find out why later in the video.
Languages. Do you speak English? What’s your level of English? I speak Spanish fluently. I would love to learn Greek. With languages we don’t use the. Okay. We have some very common words that we talk about every day. They are bed, home and work. And these don’t have the word that. I go to work at 9am. I get home at 5pm, I go to bed at 11pm. Are you at home? No, I’m at work. I wish I was in bed. ... [... Due to character limit, the rest of this transcription is unavailable]
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