- Poor little boy.'(NOT poor little)
But there are some exceptions:
We sometimes leave out a noun when we are talking about a choice between two or three different kinds (of car, milk, cigarette, bread).
- Have you got any bread?1 'Do you want white or brown? '
- A pound of butter, please.' 'I've only got unsalted '
We can use superlative adjectives without nouns, if the meaning is clear.
- I'm the tallest in my family.
- 'Which one shall I get?' The cheapest'
We can use some adjectives with theto talk about people in a particular condition.
- He s collecting money for the blind
Note that this structure has a plural 'general' meaning: the blind means 'all blind people', not 'the blind person' or 'certain blind people'.
The most common expressions of this kind are:
- the dead
- the sick
- the blind
- the deaf
- the rich the poor
- the unemployed
- the young
- the old
- the handicapped
- the mentally ill
(In informal speech, we usually say old people, young people etc instead of the old, the young.)
These expressions cannot be used with a possessive's.
- the problems of the poor
- poor people s problems (NOT the poor's problems)
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