gn="justify"> «Florence will never, never, never be a Dombey,» said Mrs. Chick. (Dickens)
4. Names of persons modified by a particularizing attribute are used with the definite article.
You're not the Andrew Manson I married. (Cronin) tall blond man of forty is not much changed in featurethe Godfrey Cass of six-and-twenty. (Eliot)
5. Names of persons used as common nouns take the article according to the general rule on the use of articles.
Swithin smiled and nodding at Bosinney said, «Why, you are quite a Monte Cristo.» (Galsworthy) has been called the Raphael of music.
6. Nouns denoting military ranks and titles such as academician, professor, doctor (both a profession and a title), count, lord, etc. followed by names of persons do not take the article. In such cases only the proper noun is stressed: Colonel «Brown, Doctor» Strong. Common nouns denoting professions followed by names of persons are generally used with the definite article. In this case both nouns are stressed.
The painter Gainsborough has left many fine pictures .. However if the name of a person is nearly always used with the common noun denoting his profession, the word group becomes an indivisible unit and the article may be omitted : judge Brown.
7. Nouns expressing relationship followed by names of persons do not take the article: Aunt Polly, Uncle James,
She turned to Cousin Clixam. (Bennett) expressing relationship not followed by a proper noun and the nouns nurse, cook, baby do not take the article when used by members of the family.
«I« d like to see Mother, » said Emily. (Galsworthy) other people »s relations are meant, the article is used. The son is as clever as the father.
8. The use of articles with names of persons modified by adjectives is varied.
In most cases no article is used with names of persons modified by the adjectives old, young, poor, dear, little, honest, lazy.
... she is the widow of poor Giovanni Bolla ... (Voynich) He saw that old Chapin wanted to moralize a little. (Dreiser) modified by other adjectives and participles names of persons take the definite article.thought Amelia worthy even of the brilliant George Osborne. (Thackeray) astonished Tom could not say a word.
. Names of persons modified by the adjective certain are used with the indefinite article.heard it from a certain Mr. Brown.) Geographical names .. Geographical names like all the other proper nouns are used without articles: England, France, Moscow, London.same holds good when a geographical name is modified by an attribute in pre-position: Soviet Russia, North America , Latin America, Central Asia .. - The word groups the Soviet Union, the United States are always used with the definite article.
2. Geographical names modified by a particularizing attribute are used with the definite article.
The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. (Dreiser)
With names of oceans, seas, rivers the definite article is used: the Pacific Ocean (the Pacific), the Black Sea, the Thames, the Ohi...
