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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

'The' with groups of people

Do I need to use article when nouns mean a group of people, or category of people?
These glasses are for the blind *or* These glasses are for blind?
After the battle, we carried the injured to the hospital *or* inured?
  

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Certainly with descriptive nouns: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. "

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Certainly with descriptive nouns:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,
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AnonymousThese glasses are for the blind. ... After the battle, we carried the injured to the hospital.
Yes, you need 'the' (as underlined above).

CJ
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The ***** sent Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals. With all these nouns 'the' used, right? But the article "hided"?
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AnonymousThe ***** sent Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals. With all these nouns 'the' used, right? But the article "hided"?
The use of the definite article when it comes to political/ethnic groups is often mixed and arbitrary. Many writers often prefer to use the definite article when they talk about groups of people that they treat as a "class". In the above sen
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No, for these groups he article is not used. It's not even hidden. In these cases, the article is used only if a particular subset is under discussion, e.g, "The Jews of Romania." That subset could be the entire group: "I'm writing a book on the history of the Jews."
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