Preposition: as

• mouse: If you have investigated my record you must know I am as poor as these miserable mice.

Adjective modifier

• rural: We work with the rural poor, using their own skills and knowledge to develop sustainable solutions to poverty.

• urban: Both crises have their roots in the alienation of a whole generation of our young, and especially our ethnic minority, urban poor.

Modifies a noun

• country: Niger, for example, is the poorest country in the world.

• performance: The highest personal lawyer should be estate has also the poor performance.

• condition: Johnson provided a detailed account of the very poor condition into which the castle had fallen.

• quality: The services they get tend to be of poorer quality.

• farmer: Now these poor black farmers were the center of attention.

• visibility: Night navigation to be more confident in poor visibility or the dark.

Used with adjective complement

• chastise: A higher deductible we're mostly young club agency inc than chastise poor.

• remain: Overall the performance of British public services remains poor by Continental standards.

• become: If the sharpness of vision from one eye becomes poor the brain will be less able to do this.

Infinitive complement

• afford: Over 70 children attended the Burgh School in 1870 paid for by the Town Council for families too poor to afford schooling.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: In Higher Education we have relatively poor participation rates which must be improved.

• desperately: I have only been married four years and have just given birth for the fifth time and it has made us desperately poor financially.

• pretty: We found one ISP in a pretty poor condition.

• very: However, the vast majority of them are very poor.

• extremely: By 1998, the SS Great Britain's condition was extremely poor.

Preposition: in

• comparison: DAB has the capabilities to sound stunning and can under the right conditions leave FM broadcasts sounding very poor in comparison.

Preposition: of

• parish: Mr. Henry Smith left the sum of 4l. per annum to the poor of this parish.