Saw on TV the news said that 'the markets will remain volatile in coming weeks'. I wonder if there should be a 'the' before 'coming weeks'.
News broadcasts are, at best, summaries of events and topics for which further details are available at their website or in newspapers. Typically, brevity is necessary to fit a time slot on the broadcast; because they pay by the minute for air time. In actual usage, “in the coming weeks” and “in the coming months” would be preferred grammatically. In writing, I would include “the”.
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But 'in the coming weeks' is used more than one hundred times as often as 'in coming weeks'.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=in+coming+weeks%2Cin+the+coming+weeks&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cin%20coming%20weeks%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20the%20coming%20weeks%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cin%20coming%20weeks%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cin%20the%20coming%20weeks%3B%2Cc0
CJ
Maybe you don't realize it, but you are answering a question that was asked 15 years ago.
Why not answer questions that are more recent? That way there's a better chance that the person who asked the question is still participating on our forum and can benefit from your answer.
CJ