Timeline for "future problems" or "problems of future" - which phrase should I choose and how should I place the articles?
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| Jul 13, 2017 at 4:41 | history | edited | ValarMorghulis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
As per moderator request, included a detailed explanation that I had earlier posted in the comments.
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| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:29 | comment | added | ValarMorghulis | True, He may have known about them. But the discussion here is about the sentence which talks about the act of solving the problems, and he did not solve them all, which is why it is more appropriate to say that he solved some problems of his own age, or in short "he did solve problems of his own age " | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:19 | comment | added | user212388 | Going by this it seems more appropriate to use article 'the' with second 'problem' (of his age) instead of first one because Mahatama Gandhi didn't know about problems of future ( in fact no one knows what lies ahead in future) thats why he couldnt solve them but he must have know about problems of his own age ( because he has solved them so its obvious) | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:16 | comment | added | ValarMorghulis | I also referred to "the" future because we know about the existence of the word future, its meaning and also know that anything happening one second from when you have finished reading this comment is something that would happen in the future, with respect to the state of you when you began reading this comment. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | ValarMorghulis | I said so, because we do not know if he solved all the problems of his age. The article "the" is used to refer to something we have prior knowledge about. If I said "I know about the problems in your life", means I know about all the problems, whereas saying "I know about problems in your life" means I know about some for sure. I may or may not know them all, but I know at least one. | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:11 | comment | added | user212388 | Why you used article 'the' in first instance of mentioning problems ( of future) but didn't use it with second instance of mentioning problems (of his age) ? | |
| Jul 12, 2017 at 12:07 | history | answered | ValarMorghulis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |