Unit 78. Names with and without the 2
Unit 78; Part A

We do not use the with names of most city streets/roads/squares/parks etc. :
Wall Street (not the ...) Fifth Avenue Hyde Park
Queens Road Broadway Times Square
Names of important public buildings and institutions (for example, airports, stations, universities) are often two words:
Manchester Airport Harvard University
The first word is the name of a place ('Manchester') or a person ('Harvard'). These names are usually without the. In the same way, we say:
Victoria Station (not the ...) Canterbury Cathedral Edinburgh Castle
Buckingham Palace Cambridge University Sydney Harbour
Compare:
Buckingham Palace (not the ...) but the Royal Palace
('Royal' is an adjective - it is not a name like 'Buckingham'.)
Unit 78; Part B

hotels/restaurants the Sheraton Hotel, the Bombay Restaurant, the Holiday Inn theatres/cinemas the Palace Theatre, the Odeon (cinema) museums/galleries the Guggenheim Museum, the Hayward Gallery other buildings the Empire State (Building), the White House, the Eiffel Tower |
We often leave out the noun:
the Sheraton (Hotel) the Palace (Theatre) the Guggenheim (Museum)
Some names are only the + noun, for example:
the Acropolis the Kremlin the Pentagon
Unit 78; Part C

the Bank of England the Museum of Modern Art
the Great Wall of China the Tower of London
Note that we say:
the University of Cambridge but Cambridge University (without the)
Unit 78; Part D

Lloyds Bank (not the ...) Brown's Restaurant Macy's (department store)
Churches are often named after saints:
St John's Church (not the St Johns Church) St Patrick's Cathedral
Unit 78; Part E

newspapers the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Sun organisations the European Union, the BBC (= British Broadcasting Corporation) the Red Cross |
Names of companies, airlines etc. are usually without the:
Fiat (not the Fiat) Sony British Airways
Kodak IBM Yale University Press
Exercises
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