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The head of a noun phrase can be implied, as in "The Bold and the Beautiful" or Robin Hood's "rob from the rich and give to the poor"; an implied noun phrase is most commonly used as a generic plural referring to human beings.

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Adjectives can function as heads of noun phrases [...], and (like all noun phrases) can be subject of the sentence, complement, object, and complement of a preposition. Adjectives as noun-phrase heads do not inflect for number or for the genitive case and they must take a definite determiner. Three types of adjectives function as noun-phrase heads.

[A] All adjectives qualifying personal nouns can be noun-phrase heads:

The poor are causing the nation's leaders great concern
[...]

These adjectives have generic reference and take plural concord. Hence, the poor cannot denote one person. [...]

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[b] Some adjectives denoting nationalities can be noun-phrase heads:

You British and you French ought to be allies
[...]

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[C] Some adjectives have abstract reference when they function as noun-phrase heads. They include, in particular, superlatives, in which case we can sometimes insert thing in its abstract sense.

The latest (thing, news) is that he is going to run for election
The very best (thing) is yet to come
He ventured into the unknown
He admires the mystical
He went from the extremely sublime to the extremely ridiculous