All buildings on this street are very bourgeois by style.
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Today I saw the following sentence:
All buildings on this street are very bourgeois by style.
1) Is it grammatically correct?
2) Shouldn't buildings take the as they are very specific and all in this sentence?
3) If yes, then my understanding is that we have two correct versions of this sentence:
- All the buildings on this street are very bourgeois by style.
- The buildings on this street are very bourgeois by style.
CalifJim once taught me that the definite article with plurals has this meaning of totality 
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"by style" doesn't sound right, so I'll change it to "in style". a) All buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style. b) All the buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
- "by style" doesn't sound right, so I'll change it to "in style".
- a) All buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
- b) All the buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
- c) The buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
- (a) is possible, but (b) feels more natural.
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"by style" doesn't sound right, so I'll change it to "in style".
a) All buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
b) All the buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
c) The buildings on this street are very bourgeois in style.
(a) is possible, but (b) feels more natural.
(c) is of course possible but of course has lost the
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