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> ジェームズは事務所で仕事をしています。
>
> 彼は毎日とても忙しいです。
>
> 彼はお客様と多くの会議をします。
>
> ジェームズはこのような会議は好きではありません。
>
> 彼は「お客様がとても退屈しているのでは」と思っています。

The sentence ジェームズはこのような会議は好きではありません sounds like James does not like this kind
of meeting (long meetings) BUT likes another kind of meeting. This does not
make sense. Secondly, in 彼は「お客様がとても退屈しているのでは」と思っています, が makes it sound like
James thinks the CUSTOMERS are the ones who are bored. But what is "customers"
being compared that requires "customers" to be emphasized with が? Of course I
am probably not aware of many of the usages of は & が because I am a beginner
and apparently entire books have been written on these 2 particles. So if
someone could point out what the exact usages of the particles are in this
case, I would greatly appreciate it.
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は-and-が
は vs が in the following passage
は in このような会議は indeed stresses that there is something particularly unpleasant
about these meetings, as they are the topic. は is the topic marker. James
doesn’t necessarily hate all meetings, but these meetings he does not like.

In お客様が退屈しているのでは , the topic is really the whole fact that the customers are
getting bored, and not just the costumers per se. So using the topic marker は
instead of が would be inappropriate.
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