Answer-Fill in the blank with the appropriate Article. We should always take care of ________ poor.

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EXPLANATION The poor is a specific group of people with shared characteristics, making it definite and requiring the definite article the.  An is used before words starting with a vowel sound, but poor begins with a consonant sound p.  No article is not used before nouns referring to groups of people unless its a specific, established group e.g., the government. In this case, the poor refers to a general group without a specific name.  A is used before singular, countable nouns, but the poor refers to a plural group.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate Article.

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