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Nafisi Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Article 'the'

Why don't we use 'the' in this phrase 'Buckingham Palace' ,but we use 'the' in this phrase 'the national museum'?
  

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If a name is made up of a proper noun followed by a common noun , no article is normally used: Buckingham Palace , Gatwick Airport, Kensington Gardens , Victoria Station , Helsinki University. The names of museums normally take the definite article: the British Museum, the Louvre, the Science Museum. CB

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  • If a name is made up of a proper noun followed by a common noun , no article is normally used: Buckingham Palace , Gatwick Airport, Kensington Gardens , Victoria Station , Helsinki University.
  • The names of museums normally take the definite article: the British Museum, the Louvre, the Science Museum.
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If a name is made up of a proper noun followed by a common noun, no article is normally used: Buckingham Palace, Gatwick Airport, Kensington
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