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 Devitsa
 
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							| Using of articles 
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							| Dear friends! Could you help me, please? What article is used with the names of the lakes? I have some grammar books but the rules are not the same...  The Baikal or Baikal? Thanks in advance. Devitsa. |  6 Dec 2010      
					
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 blunderbuster
 
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							| None if they have a name: Wallowa Lake, Lake Constance, Lake Superior. 
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 kodora
 
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							| Seas,oceans and rivers take the definite article The but it is not used before lakes. The Aegean Sea, The Atlantic Ocean, The Nile but Lake Michigan.
 Dora
 
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 mariby22
 
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							| The Baikal but: Lake Bailkal |  6 Dec 2010     
					
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