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Originally Posted by Crownedinterror
Those で are て form of だ(です/である).
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I know.
This is one of the reasons I brought it up.
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Originally Posted by Crownedinterror
And you can't use で for example for :
猫と犬がいる。
ねこといぬがいる。
Because you want to say that there are(exist) cats and dogs, not it is a cat and a dog.
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Again, another reason I brought it up, and why I said "In this case".
Of course we can't use で in your example, because it is a fundamentally different sentence.
But we want to describe what the person
is (Going back to the で being a て form of だ reason.)
For these reasons I also provided the example from ALC.
Of course I could be wrong, but I felt it important to bring up.