Names of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals

Ø 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 Daily Telegraph,the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, theSun, the Star; the one exception is: Today.

· … the cityeditor of the Washington Post.

· … in an article in the Times.

Ø You use a zero articlewith the names of foreign newspapers: Pravda, Le Monde, Der Spiegel.

· ...a long and thoughtful article in Le Monde.

Ø Names of periodicals such as magazines and journals have either the definite article or a zero article: Punch, Newsweek, ELT Journal, the Journal of American Psychology, the Spectator.

· ...a collection of tales which previously appeared in Punch.

· ...a cartoon in the Spectator.

Exercise 1. In the sentences below, only one of the underlined alternatives is appropriate. Cross out the one that is wrong.

1. Newsweek/ The Newsweek appears, not surprisingly, every week.

2. Is Pravda/ the Pravda a daily or a weekly newspaper?

3. The article was published in Spectator/ the Spectator.

4. British newspapers are usually divided into popular papers, like Today/ the Today and Sun/ the Sun, and quality papers, like Guardian/ the Guardian.

5. Times/ The Times is a daily newspaper.

6. One of them was reading Mail/ the Mail and the other was reading Express/ the Express. (G. Orwell)

7. Have you got a Guardian/ the Guardian that I could borrow?

8. I was reading a piece in News Chronicle/ the News Chronicle the other day where it said that bombing planes can’t do any damage nowadays. (G. Orwell)

9. Dick was in his own room in the hotel reading New York Herald/ the New York Herald when the swallow-like nun rushed in – simultaneously the phone rang. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. It is written in Koran/ the Koran. (H. Fielding)

11. It appeared in New York Times/ the New York Times.

Names of Political Institutions

Ø The names of most political or government bodies and institutions have the definite article: the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Department of Trade and Industry, the State Department, the Cabinet.

· It was defeated in the House of Commons on 13 December.

· Look at the percentage of lawyers in the Senate.

Ø This is true also of foreign institutions, translated or not: the Bundestag, the Dail, the Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of the Interior, and so on.

· ...at a special meeting of the Bundestag.

· ...regular briefings by the Interior Ministry and the Foreign Ministry.

Ø Exceptions to this are: Parliament (but the Houses of Parliament), Congress, and names of councils: Kent County Council, Leeds City Council.

· ...when I was elected to Parliament in 1964.

· He attended Congress only nine times.

Ø Names of locations and buildings that are used to refer metonymically to political institutions stay as they are: Whitehall, Westminster, Downing Street, Washington, the Kremlin.

· But the final decision may be made in the Kremlin.

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