Choose the correct article: ____ Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world.
- A. A
- B. An
- C. The
- D. No article
Explanation
Names of individual mountains take no article, so we say Mount Everest and K2 but the Himalayas for the range. The same pattern applies to lakes, which take no article, and rivers and seas, which take the. These conventions are learnt by exposure rather than deduced.