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I was watching a video about travelling around the world. They had covered 12 countries in three months.

I wanted to leave a comment but was not sure if sentence 1 and sentence 2 are different in meaning.

Sentence 1: The XXX Country residents (e.g. the German, the Japanese, the Spanish) were nice.
Sentence 2: The XXX Country residents were nice people.

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  • I don't think using "The XXX country residents" is appropriate. For example, "The United Kingdom residents were nice (or nice people)" would not be a good sentence. Can you tell us which country you are referring to by "XXX Country"?
    – user24743
    Commented Jun 1, 2016 at 17:16
  • Thank you for the help, Rathony. I have added some examples of these XXX country residents
    – kitty
    Commented Jun 1, 2016 at 18:10

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There really isn't much of a difference between the two sentences.

The [group of people] were nice.

is the same as saying

The [group of people] were nice people.

because the people after the nice is implied because the subject of the sentence are people already (a group of people are people, otherwise it'd be a group of something else).

The second sentence explicitly states what the word nice is referring to.

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They are the same! The second sentence just has a little more description with it. "Nice" is the adjective you're using to describe the residents in both sentences.

Here's what each sentence is referring to (using "Germans" as an example):

Sentence 1: The Germans were nice.

Sentence 2: The Germans were nice people.

Same exact meaning, slightly different (grammatically) as to which specific word "nice" refers to.

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