Can you please tell the meaning of "one of" in the sentence below? thanks!
The question became one of whether Man could control the disease he had invented.
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You could substitute "about" for "one of" here and keep the meaning. However, "one of" here is an unnecessary phrase, you could take it out and it would not change the meaning at all except to make the sentence more clear and less pretentious.
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The question became a question of whether....
-- "one" is used to refer to something that was previously mentioned
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