Which one is correct, 'the poor' or 'the poorer'?
there are some other combinations like this example, such as 'the young' and 'the youngster', 'the old' and 'the elder', 'the westerner' and 'the wester'... which one is correct? Are there any difference between each counterpart?
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Answers · 3
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We don't say "the wester". Ever.
In your "pairs", one means a group and the other means a single person. I'll let you work out which one.
To say "the poor people", we can simply use "the poor".
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I think "the poor"is correct
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of course,the first one, that means a group, which contains certain type of individual
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