Names of organizations

Names of festivals

Names of musical groups can have either no article or the definite article: Queen, the Beatles, Dire Straits, the Supremes.

Names of musical groups

Names which are taken from the place where the event occurs do not have the definite article: Wimbledon (for tennis), Ascot and Epsom (for horse-racing events), Henley (for rowing).

Names of sporting events

Names of newspapers and periodicals

Names of ships, trains, and spacecraft

· Names of ships are usually used with the definite ar­ticle: the Sedov, the Titanic, the Queen Elizabeth.

…and eventually the Queen Elizabeth was put to sea.

· The names of smaller boats usually have no article:

The front runner will undoubtedly be Richard Matthew’s converted America’s Cup 12-metre yacht, Crusader.

· Established train services have the definite article: the Orient Express.

· Spacecraft tend to have no article: Challenger, Apollo 17.

· Names of newspapers published in English tend to have the definite article, including almost all the British national daily newspapers: the Times, the Guardian, the Independent; the only one exception is: Today.

· The definite article is not used with the names of foreign newspapers: Pravda, Le Monde, Der Spiegel

· Names of periodicals such as magazines and journals have no article: Punch, Newsweek, ELT Journal.

Note. the Journal of American Psychology, the Spectator.

· Names of sporting events usually have the definite article: the Superbowl, the Olympic Games, the World Cup, the Cup Final, the Boat Race, the British Open.

I really enjoy events like the World Championship and the Olympic Games.

One particular case of such an event is picked out by using the definite or indefinite article: I’ve never been to a Cup Final.

The choice of name depends on the group, and so it is possible to deliberately break ordinary rules of article usage for stylistic reasons. However most plurals still have the definite article, for example: the Rolling Stones, the Shadows, the Eurythmics, the Doors.

In our own time the Rolling Stones have developed a similar reputation.

Names of religious and other festivals have no article: Christmas, Easter, Carnival, Ramadan, Midsummer’s Day, Mother’s Day, and so on. (But note the 4^th of July.)

Easter is a great time in Poland.

But one particular event can be picked out by using the definite or indefinite article.

We appreciate the rare luxury of a Christmas at home.

· Names of well-known institutions, foundations, organizations typically have the definite article, and they keep it when they are abbreviated: the United Nations (the UN), the BBC, the FBI, the Ford Foundation.

The TUC runs ten-day courses all over the country.

The BBC never reported my speeches.

If an abbreviation is pronounced as a word, then there is no article. So “the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries” is usually called “OPEC” /"@Upek/. Other examples are “ NATO” and “UNICEF”

· Some names of charities do not have the definite article: Oxfam, Christian Aid, Mencap.

· Businesses and chains of shops are referred to with no article: General Motors, Sony, Woolworths, Shell, Nissan, Singapore Airlines.

Now Collins have brought it out in a new translation.

This applies even when abbreviation is used which is not pronounced as a word: BP /bi:pi:/ (British Petroleum), KLM, BA, ICI, IBM and so on.

…corporations like IBM, RCA and Xerox.

However if a word like “ company ” is used, then the definite article is used: the Bell Telephone Company.

You can find alternatives like: “General Electric” and “GEC” as well as ” the General Electric Company”.

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