[Grammar] number list

[ShirleyLing]

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The racial makeup of Oakland was 134,925 (34.5%) White, 109,471 (28.0%) African American, 3,040 (0.8%) Native American, 65,811 (16.8%) Asian, 2,222 (0.6%) Pacific Islander, 53,378 (13.7%) from other races, and 21,877 (5.6%) from two or more races.

Shouldn't there be, ignoring the percentages in parentheses, "who were/that were" between the whole numbers and the racial adjectives?

 

[Rover_KE]

No. It's fine as is.

Rover

 

[ShirleyLing]

But I don't think "He is a person good." is correct.

 

[bhaisahab]

But I don't think "He is a person good." is correct.

Where is "He is a person good" in your original post?

 

[ShirleyLing]

I was trying to ask how an adjective could come AFTER a noun.

 

[5jj]

I was trying to ask how an adjective could come AFTER a noun.

There are no adjectives after nouns.

The racial makeup of Oakland was 134,925 (34.5%) White, 109,471 (28.0%) African American,...

The adjective noun of noun was number adjective, number adjective, ...

or, considered another way:

The adjective noun of noun was number noun, number noun, ...

 

[ShirleyLing]

The numbers are not nouns? I thought "134,925" in "134,925 (34.5%) White" stands for "134,925 people".

 

[ShirleyLing]

I think "White", "African American", "Asian", etc, are adjectives. If they were nouns, they would be in plural forms.

 

[Raymott]

I think "White", "African American", "Asian", etc, are adjectives. If they were nouns, they would be in plural forms.

It's a type of shorthand.
"The contents of the jellybean bowl were: 3 red, 4 green and 1 black." This means "3 red ones", etc.
You could say, "In the jellybean bowl there were 3 jellybeans which were red, etc...." but it's not necessary.

 

[ShirleyLing]

So, the example in the original post is missing a colon?

 

[Raymott]

So, the example in the original post is missing a colon?

You could make a case for there being a missing colon in the original.

 

[Rover_KE]

I repeat what I wrote in message #2: it's fine as is.

Rover

 

[ShirleyLing]

I don't get why the example in another thread requires "that/who are" but the example in current thread doesn't.

.... there are five people who/that are White, seven African American, and two Asian.

The racial makeup of Oakland was 134,925 (34.5%) White, 109,471 (28.0%) African American,....