The article. Part 2
Articles with nouns referring to unique objects the - in most cases e.g. The whole country belongs to me, with the sky for a roof and the earth for a bed the universe, the atmosphere, the ground, the horizon, the sea, the moon, the North, the South, the East, the West, etc BUT: to lie/to go north of France (adverb) a/an – with a descriptive attribute e.g. From that height the white houses seemed to be pricked by a great orange sun In the RHEME of the sentence e.g. If there was a moon she turned off the lights and would watch it for hours e.g. He saw a blue sparkling sea dotted with white sails Articles with names of substances