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Originally Posted by Xajron
Ok, so I should say 学生で、先生もです? Got it.
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Nope.
You cannot say もです. Please read
each letter in my sentences carefully.
You can choose between でもある and でもあります.
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So ありis kind of like when you use the stem form of verbs (instead of the te-form) to link sentences, but you use ありbecause だ is already in the te-form?
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You seem a bit confused here.
I stated last time that あり was the continuative form of ある. The term "continuative form" is the official name for the "te-form". (Believe it or not, the term "te-form" is NEVER used in Japan, which is why I don't like using it in my explanations.) So, あり is already in the "te-form" even though you see no て in it, and so is で.
This is the reason that you should construct these sentences as:
(Again, read each and every letter carefully or you will learn nothing in this post. If I were you, I would read these
aloud.)
であり + であり + でもある or
で + で + でもある
でもある can be replaced by でもあります.