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Jigneshbharati Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

The corrupt

"The corrupt have made all efforts to defeat the decision (demonetisation). They even thought of managing bank officials to get their black money converted into white. And that's how many of them got caught," he said.
http://m.rediff.com/news/report/dishonest-to-face-ruin-after-december-30-warns-pm/20161224.htm
Please explain the use of "the" before "corrupt"?
  

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'the' is used before an adjective to refer to the whole group of people who have the property described by the adjective. the corrupt ~ those (people) who are corrupt the rich ~ those who are rich the poor ~ those who are poor CJ

— CalifJim

  • 'the' is used before an adjective to refer to the whole group of people who have the property described by the adjective.
  • the corrupt ~ those (people) who are corrupt the rich ~ those who are rich the poor ~ those who are poor CJ
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'the' is used before an adjective to refer to the whole group of people who have the property described by the adjective.

the corrupt ~ those (people) who are corrupt
the rich ~ those who are rich
the poor ~ those who are poor

CJ
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JigneshbharatiThe corrupt
It's a noun used the way we say "the poor", "the rich", "the blind", "the unemployed", etc. These expressions have plural meaning.
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AnonymousIt's a noun
It's usually analyzed as an NP (noun phrase) without a head noun. It's a determiner (the), an adjective (poor), and "an empty head", i.e., no noun! Pretty crazy, isn't it!

CJ
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CalifJim Pretty crazy, isn't it!
Indeed, it is.
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