（3）在学校、医院、教堂等词前定冠词的使用情况。

Question：那关于定冠词还有什么需要了解的呢？

Answer：还有的。今天说说在学校、医院、教堂等词前定冠词的使用情况：（3）在学校、医院、教堂等词前定冠词的使用情况。先完成上次“待续”的内容。

（接上篇）

4．当用形容词（如English）表示一个国家的人民时，要用定冠词：

   the Chinese  the English  the French  the Dutch  the Spanish  the Japanese  

   但当复数形式表示一个国家或大洲的人民时则可用也可不用定冠词：

(the) Americans  (the)Puerto Ricans  (the) Italians  (the) Europeans

   5．在用形容词表示一类人时用定冠词：

the rich   the famous

   6．序数词前用定冠词：

the first  the third   the fifth(5th) floor etc.

    但表示比赛或竞赛的名词时不用定冠词：

He came third in the race.

在学校、医院、教堂等词前定冠词的使用情况：

Reading:

On Sunday they went to church. They went to the church of Broadway. On the way back to the hotel they saw a shooting at the university on 19th Street and two students were taken to hospital.

1．在谈到诸如去Church, hospital, school, university, college, prison, court等地的主要目的或这些地方的用途时，不用定冠词：

On Sunday we went to church.

Two students were taken to hospital.

2．但是谈到具体的某个教堂或大学等时，用定冠词：

    We went to the Church on Broadway.

    We saw a shooting at the university.

小练习：在需要的地方填the：

1.___ Americans seem to work harder than ___ British.

2.___ Long Island is where many of ____ rich and ____ famous live.

3.Our hotel manager went to ___ school in England, then went to ____university in the States.

上期答案：

1.The，  the  2. The，  the，  the  3. The，  the，不填