Page 4 - Digi Notes : English - 05.05.2016

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Seas
The Red Sea
The Dead Sea
The Arabian Sea
Bay/Gulf
The Bay of Bengal

The Bay of China
The Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Guyana

Exception:
THE is not used before Hudson Bay but its placed before the Bay of Bengal
because in THE BAY OF BENGAL, BENGAL is a place which comes in the
end but in HUDSON BAY, HUDSON is a place which comes prior and THE is
not used before the name of a place. So the article THE is not used before
HUDSON.

4. THE is used before group of islands.
The Andamans
The West Indies
The Philippines

Exception:
The is not used before any specific island which has a very large land mass.
The Java (wrong)
Java (correct)
The Sicily (wrong)

Sicily (correct)
The Sumatra (wrong)
Sumatra (correct)

5. THE is used before deserts.

The Thar Desert
The Sahara Desert
The Arabian Desert

6. THE is used before holy books.

The Gita

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