Bob warned me that the gun on the top shelf of the cupboard was loaded. The phrase on the top shelf of the cupboard identifies the specific gun. Please don't slam the door when you leave. Both the speaker and the listener know which door is meant. When not to use the .
Fountains are an expensive element of landscape design.
In some parts of the world, rice is preferred to all other grains. Nouns are treated differently based on whether they can be counted or not. Noncount nouns, on the other hand, are treated as collections that can't be counted. This material was adapted from A Pocket Style Manual, Second Edition by Diana Hacker. Bedford Books, 1997.