[Grammar] that are (2)

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In this room, there are five people that are unemployed.

Would dropping "that are" cause some ungrammaticality or change the meaning of the sentence?
 

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When referring to people, we generally use the relative pronoun who. ...five people who are unemployed.
 

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So, would dropping "that/who are" cause some ungrammaticality or change the meaning of the sentence?
 

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It would sound awkward to my ear unless you changed the position of the adjective.

"In this room there are five unemployed people."
 

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So, almost identical answers to the similar question you posed in the other thread.
 

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Is there a rule for when to move an adjective to right after a noun?
 

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Is there a rule for when to move an adjective to the right after a noun?
It's not a case of 'moving the adjective to the right'. It is dropping the relative pronoun and BE before a participle or adjective.

There is only the common-sense rule not to do it - it sometimes sounds unnatural.
 
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So, the example cited in post #6 (from some newspaper) is error free?
 

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When referring to people, we generally use the relative pronoun who. ...five people who are unemployed.

In BrE, we use both- who is more common in formal language, but in general usage, both are used.
 
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