Could you tell me if the following sentence is correct or not? It seems to me that it is not correct because as I know, definite articles are never used with personal names. The only thing that I worry about is that I found this sentence on a website for learning English.
That evening, jack saw the Maria and Angela. They looked hungry so he offered them a hot meal.
Answer
As voxanimus noted, that use is incorrect.
The only correct use I can think of that works that way is when speaking of a well-known individual.
For example, in this exchange:
Dennis Ritchie is dead.
Not the Dennis Ritchie? dmr? The guy who developed C?
That instance of the would be emphasized so that it would be pronounced just like the pronoun thee, so /ðiː/ with a long, drawn-out vowel.
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