A sentence from textbook-- does it sound natural?
The sentence: They study German and we English.
"we English" sounds a little bit strange to me.One university subsidizes store keepers and another students. -- A sentence I write. Is it correct?
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It's perfectly correct. The word "study" has been removed (...and we study English) because it's redundant. Removing redundant words is pretty typical in English.
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I think it should be. They study German and we - English.
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It's perfectly correct, but to an American ear it does sound archaic. Very few Americans would say, "they play basketball and we baseball", much more common would be "...and we play baseball".
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Perfectly correct. It simply omits the redundant verb study" because it is implied that those people in the second clause also "study". Another example of this pattern: I eat meat but she not. It could also be phrased "I eat meat but she does not." Same meaning
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it is supposed to be that way they study german and we study english
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