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1) The problem is one that always faces a society when it finds itself threatened.
2) The problem is one that always faced by a society when it find itself threatened.
Could it be that #1 equals #2 semantically?
Honestly, I'm accustomed to #2 as in the problems faced by one-parent families rather than the problems that faced one-parent families.
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anonymous 1) The problem is one that always faces a society when it finds itself threatened. 2a) The problem is one that is always faced by a society when it find s itself threatened. 2b) The problem is one always faced by a society when it find s itself threatened.
- anonymous 1) The problem is one that always faces a society when it finds itself threatened.
- 2a) The problem is one that is always faced by a society when it find s itself threatened.
- 2b) The problem is one always faced by a society when it find s itself threatened.
- 3) The problem is one that a society always faces when it finds itself threatened.
- (2) is incorrect as you wrote it and needs to be amended in one of the ways above.
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anonymous1) The problem is one that always faces a society when it finds itself threatened.
2a) The problem is one that is always faced by a society when it finds itself threatened.
2b) The problem is
0anonymousCould it be that #1 equals #2 semantically?
No. It is not literal. The society faces the problem. It comes up against the problem. It encounters the problem. The society is being anthropomorphized, not the problem.
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