Countries that start with definite article and why they do so. Find out if 'to call someone all sorts of names' is a correct expression in English
Good morning KIB students. Today, you will get your grammatical emancipation from forgetting to add the definite article 'the' in front of some countries. The other day, I mentioned a few countries we always talk about here in Nigeria and how most people forget to add definite article in front of them. The basic confusion that arose was, why do they really have a definite article in some and not in others? So, let's get down to brass tacks and understand why that is so. Some countries are just proper noun E.g Canada, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, India, China, Japan. These countries don't have a definite article. Countries that have definite articles in front of them always have common nouns in them. 1.The Dominican republic 2. The United States of America or the US 3. The United Kingdoms or the UK 4. The Marshal Islands 5. The northern Mariana's island 6 The United Arab Emirate...