Role of the “the” in the one thing that can be done is to provide opportunity?
In the extract
The one thing that can be done is to provide opportunity, without repining at the waste that results from most men failing to make well use of the opportunity.
Does the emboldened article “the” affect the meaning? In layman’s terms, One is a determiner for something and a valid noun phrase is “one thing that can be done”.
How does the article
remove it from the list? What do you think
should be done?
