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Peoples is used when we talk about two or more different ethnic groups. For example, "All the 14 distinct peoples (native groups) of the continent were part of the survey". Whereas People's is not the plural form. The apostrophe ('s) is used to indicate possession.
2015年9月28日 · Peoples is the plural of people, in this second sense. (The peoples of Africa) This merging of words with similar meanings has happened on multiple occasions in English and explains several irregularities (for example "Go-went", "Be-is-was").
a. In this era, most of the young people are impatient and this leads to crime. My teacher corrected to b. In this era, most young people are impatient and this leads to crime. My questio...
What is the correct form? There is people There are people? Kindly, explain your answer. People is usually used in the sense of "multiple persons tied by some common thread", hence it's used as a plural.
Most normal people would be surprised to learn that the Bishop of Durham was a corporation for instance. In English law the word "individual" is often used for a natural person. In this usage "persons" is the correct plural and "people" would be wrong. Corporations are person not people.
2022年9月3日 · As always, it would help to look at the uncontracted form: It is people who cannot understand me! "It" is a dummy pronoun, as "people who can't understand me" (*) would be ungrammatical with the "who". Alternative ways of phrasing this idea are: The/My problem is that other people can't understand me! It's other people's fault that they don't ...
2017年12月22日 · Also I agree that "request you to" usage is outdated in American english but I disagree that it is ungrammatical for other peoples just because they don't use it anymore. Question update 2: As I have got enough explanation below in the comments and discussions that the usage is no longer valid in America.
Which one is correct: "There is a few people" because of the A determiner which is singular, or "there are a few people" because of the noun PEOPLE which is plural? Thanks a lot.
The OP's question involves the topic of interrogative pronouns (e.g. "who" and "what") and the question of whether they could be considered to be singular or plural.
2015年3月8日 · 3. "people", when used as the plural of "person", requires a verb form that's also in the plural. In your example, "most people" refers to multiple individuals, so you need the plural. Unrelated to your example, but useful to know: the word "people" could also be used as a singular noun, but with a different meaning - it refers to a group of ...
