Please consider the sentence below:
Of the two students, John works the harder.
I thought 'the' is used only for nouns:
The book, the young (people), ....
What is the reason behind that please?
I would not include the article. It does not seem to me to be grammatical.
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I would not include the article. It does not seem to me to be grammatical.