منتديات المُنى والأرب - Names with and without the

Names with and without the.

A/ We do not use 'the' with names of most streets/roads/squares/parks etc.:

Union Street (not 'the...') / Fifth Avenue/ PiccadillyCircus/ Hyde Park

Blackrock Road/ Broadway/ Times Square/ WaterlooBridge

Many names (especially names of important buildings and institutions) are two words:
Kennedy Airport/ Cambridge University
The first word is usually the name of a person ('Kennedy') or a place ('Cambridge'). We do notusually use 'the' with names like these. Some more examples:
Victoria Station (not 'the...') / Edinburgh Castle/ London Zoo/ Westminster Abbey/ Buckingham Palace/ Canterbury Cathedral

But we say 'the White House', 'the Royal Palace', because 'white' and 'royal' are not names like 'Kennedy' and 'Cambridge'. This is only a general rule and there are exceptions.
B/ Most other names (of places, buildings etc.) have names with the:

These places usually have names with the:

Hotels/restaurants/pubsèthe Station Hotel, the Bombay Restaurant, the Red Lion (pub)

theatres/cinemasè the Palace Theatre, the Odeon Cinema
Museums/galleriesè the British Museum, the Tate Gallery
other buildings è the Empire State Building, the Festival Hall, the White House.

Oceans/seas/canals è the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal

also:
Newspapers è the Washington Post, the Financial Times

organisationsèthe European Community, the BBC (= the British Broadcasting Corporation)
Sometimes we leave out the noun: the Hilton (Hotel), the Sahara (Desert)
Sometimes the name is only the + noun: the Vatican (in Rome), the Sun (British newspaper)

Names with ...of... usually have the. For example:
the Bank of England/ the Tower of London/the Museum of Modern Art

the Houses of Parliament/the Great Wall of China/ the Tropic of Capricorn

the Gulf of Mexico/ the University of London (but the London University)
C/ Many shops, restaurants, hotels, banks etc. are named after the people who started them. These names end in -'s or -s. We do not use 'the' with these names:
Lloyds Bank (not the Lloyds Bank)/ McDonalds/ Jack's Guest House/ Harrods (shop)/
Churches are often named after saints:
St John's Church (not the St John's Church)/ St Paul's Cathedral
D/ Names of companies, airlines etc. are usually without 'the':
Fiat (not the Fiat) Sony Kodak British Airways IBM