冠词 概念： 冠词是一种虚词，本身不能独立使用，只能附着 在一个名词上帮助说明这名词的含义。 分类： 定冠词 特指 不定冠词 泛指

1. 冠词 概念：冠词是一种虚词，本身不能独立使用，只能附着 在一个名词上帮助说明这名词的含义。 分类： 定冠词 特指 不定冠词 泛指 注 1：可数名词的泛指： eg: A horse is a useful animal. The horse is a useful animal. Horses are useful animals. 不可数名词的泛指：不可数名词前不加冠词。

2. 注 2：专有名词前不加冠词的情况： 人名：Lu Xun, Mr Zhou, Professor Li 地名：Hong Kong, China, Alaska 其他：January, Saturday, German, little Tom, big John, Southeast Asia, ancient Greece, Modern English, New England 注 3：专有名词前必须加定冠词 的情况： 江河海洋：the Yangtze River, the Thames, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Baltic, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean 山脉群岛：the Tien-shan Mountains, the Alps, the Philippines, the Zhoushan islands 但： Mount O Mei, Christmas Island

3. 海湾海峡：the English Channel, the Taiwan Straits, the Bay of Biscay, the Persian Gulf 湖名前一般不加冠词： eg: Lake Success, Lake Baikal, 但：the Lake of Geneva, the Great Salt Lake 注 4： 特指除了用定冠词表示外，还可以用物主代词、 名词所有格表示。 Eg: He is in the / his / the students’ dormitory. 泛指除了用不定冠词外，还可以用数词和不定代词表示。 Eg: Here is a book. Here are two books. Here are a few books.

4. 注 5： 在某些词组中，表示身体部位的名词前常用定冠词。 Eg: They pulled her by the hair. He gave me a pat on the back. He hit me on the chin. 注 6：在sun, moon, sky 等前有一描绘性定语，也可加 不定冠词。 Eg: Day broke and a brilliant sun lit up the rooms. A pale moon hung low in the sky. 注 7： 表示方位的名词前通常要加定冠词。 Eg: The island lies to the south of Guangdong.

5. 注 8： 在turn后,名词前常不加冠词。 Eg: He used to be a teacher till he turned writer. 在title 和rank of 连用的名词也常不用冠词。 Eg: He was awarded the title of model worker. He was promoted to the rank of captain. 注 9： 无冠词的短语： arm in arm, face to face, hand in hand, back to back, side by side, day by day, from father to son, from top to toe, be hand in glove with sb, make head or tail of sth