If XXX are nice people there is no difference between the two in my opinion.
I watched a video talking about travelling around the world. Which one is the best and where do I start? They had covered 12 countries in three months.
What is the meaning of sentence 1 and sentence 2?
Sentence I: The XXX Country residents. (e.g. Germans, Japanese, Spanish) were lovely.
Sentence 2: The XXX Country residents were nice people.
What is the meaning of this statement? What are the implications?
They are the same! Another quote you will get with the second sentence. “Nice” is the adjective you’re using to describe the residents in both sentences.
What is “Germans” in Sentence 1?
Sentence 2: The Germans were nice people.
Similar exact meaning, slightly different (grammatically) as to which specific word “nice” refers to.
Are there any differences in words between these two sentences?
I think the people were nice.
Is a statement that I
“I just enjoy the company of smart people” a good thing?
someone after nice is implied because the subject of the sentence are people already (a group of people are people), otherwise it’s a group of something else.
The second sentence explicitly states what the word nice is referring to.
