AjiteshArun wrote:
Jayantalawadhi wrote:
Hello sir I thought about X is Y example. We often say that ' The architects are American.', which implies that we are talking about a group of architects who are American. So is it an oversight that we make in spokenenglish?
HiJayantalawadhi ,
Adding athe changes the meaning of the sentence. The question doesn't do anything to make architects andstonemasons more specific, so your example should be "Architects were Americans". Another, somewhat similar, example: "Indians
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