The title says it all. The sentence in question is it rained on the head of james, steve, and billy. People can also mean a group persons, a population, or ethnicity.
I heard this phrase in tropic thunder. Grammarist says in modern english, people is the de facto plural of person. People and person have separate latin origins, and they came to english at different times by different paths, but.
The original question goes like this: Given the title (how to make our life wonderful.?), i would consider that person is not using life correctly. (the peoples of africa) this. People people's i heard somebody say that "people's does not work in a sentence.
How to address multiple peoples in email? Which word is correct and what is the difference between these words? (the people of france) peoples is the plural of people, in this second sense. People means a group of.
I don't think gives emphasis to the people's individual nature is at all relevant to either of op's cited contexts (many creative individuals, an unscrupulous individual). Ask question asked 5 years, 9 months ago modified 5 years, 9 months ago The flood which happened last week caused 100 people's. To me it sounds like it should be it rained on the heads of james, steve, and billy.
Why do they use 'persons'. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given word.