I have read in several sources that it is grammatically incorrect to use は
(topic particle) in relative clauses. However, I am almost certain that I have
seen constructions like the following:

> 学生ではない男子は今自分で遊んでいる。

Is this technically incorrect? Should it be 学生でない? Or is this は not considered
the same particle that is forbidden in relative clauses?
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grammar particle-は negation relative-clauses
ではない in Relative Clauses
I think that using ではない in relative clauses is correct because ではない as a whole
is the negative conjugation of です, and not a set of particles.

That said, I'm aware that the construction Aではない (meaning not to be A) comes
from Aでは ない (the quality of A does not exist) in a more literal sense, but I'd
look to the verb as a unit rather to parsing it down to particles. At the end
of the day, when we say 学生ではない男子 we mean the boys who **are not** students.
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