This joke is repurposed from my collection of jokes. I use it in my class to teach t"The + nominalized adjectives".
In class, I run through it as you would do any other joke/riddle. I give students the question, challenge them to solve the riddle, and then show them the answer.
After giving them the answer, I highlight some of the sentences like "The poor have it" and "The rich need it". I ask the students to identify what part of speech "rich" and "poor" are. If the students say that "rich" and "poor" are adjectives, I then ask the how "the rich" and "the poor" are being used in the sentence.
I then give them the rule that "The + adjective" can refer to a group of people.
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