1. Normally no article is used before
persons' names if they are not specified .For example : But she was
watching Bertie!
2. The definite article is used with persons' names when
· A name denotes the whole family. For example : The Browns were I
thought a religious family.
· A name is modified by a restrictive attribute . For example : She
was a stranger to the Dorinda of yesterday / Glasgow/
· A name is used with a descriptive attribute denoting a particular
state of mind or mood of the person or his/her permanent
characteristics. For example : She gave the astonished Hoylake 10
shillings /Bates/
Note
But no article is used before persons' names with descriptive attributes
if these attributes are emotionally colored and are, so to say, parts of
the names / old, young, dear, little ,poor,
honest/. For example : Old Golvon
goes to the opera. I turned. It was young Brown.
3.The indefinite article is used before persons' names
when
· A name denotes one of the family. For example : But if you ask me
how I do it ,I'll answer ,because I am a Forsyte!
· The adjective certain is used or
implied before a name . Foe example : A certain Mrs. Jones rang me up
today but she's got the wrong number.
· The article means one like , another.
For example : At thirteen I thought him a Shakespeare.
Note
Persons' names denoting products of the activity of the given person are
used with articles like common count nouns. For example : This is a
Mauser - he said
