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Is life with or without the definite article when: "He is thinking about (the) life". And why?
[Grammar] 'Life' or 'the life'???
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No article there. It is because "life" refers to life in general.
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It could work if it went on to say something like "She was thinking about the life she would have had if she had moved to Australia". As with Tdol's example, that refers to a specific life.
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