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Pacific (Ocean), etc.
5. Canals:
the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, etc.; also the English Channel.
6. Some countries, areas, provinces:
the USA (the United States of America), the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Ukraine, the
Crimea, the Caucasus.
7. Deserts:
the Sahara (Desert), the Gobi (Desert), the Karakum (Desert).
8. Parts of towns:
the West End, the East End, the Soho, the City (of London), the Bronx (in New York).
9. The de facto capital of the Netherlands:
the Hague.
III. Names of public institutions (museums, theatres, hotels, restaurants), unique buildings and monuments:
the Tate (Gallery), the National Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum (Opera), the British Museum, the
Louvre, the Hermitage, the Prado, the Grand (Hotel), the Savoy,the Kremlin, the White House, the
Bronze Horseman, the Sphinx.
IV. Names of vessels:
the Discovery, the Titanic, the Queen Elisabeth, the Dolores, etc.
V. Names of most newspapers (in English-speaking countries):
the Times, the Washington Post, the Canadian Tribune, etc.
Absence of the article
§ 196. The absence of any article, which is sometimes referred to as the zero article, is as meaningful as their
actual use. It is regularly observed with count nouns in the plural, with non-counts used in a general sense, with
proper nouns.
§ 197. The indefinite article has no plural form and thus it cannot be used with nouns in the plural in any of
its functions.
The plural form without an article corresponds to the classifying and generic uses of the indefinite article
and sometimes to the generic use of the definite article.
Jane is a student.
A dog barks.
A man who has nothing to say has no words.
The tiger lives in the jungle.
Jane and Mary are students.
Dogs bark.
Men who have nothing to say have no words.
Tigers live in the jungle.
If the idea of number is retained, an indefinite pronoun (some, any, no), adjectives (several, a lot of, many),
or a cardinal numeral accompanies the plural noun.
Have you a record teaching English pronunciation?
There grew a cherry-tree once.
Have you any records teaching English pronunciation?
They have some (several, many, ten) records of the
kind.
There grew three (some, a lot of) cherry-trees once.