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Originally Posted by Dan Davenport
Actually, it's perfectly valid to use a verb as a noun -- that's called a gerund.
In this case, it's not "The shifted what," but rather, "Those who have been shifted." It's used in the same context as "the injured."
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To be precise, this is not a gerund. All gerunds end in -ing. "The shifting", when referring to the act of shifting, would be a gerund.
I'm not sure what an -ed form would be called.