This isn't the first time i've seen a character in a movie/tv show use you people and be accused of racism for it. How to address multiple peoples in email? Why do they use 'persons'.
I heard this phrase in tropic thunder. The original question goes like this: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given word.
People and person have separate latin origins, and they came to english at different times by different paths, but. People can also mean a group persons, a population, or ethnicity. People means a group of. The sentence in question is it rained on the head of james, steve, and billy.
Grammarist says in modern english, people is the de facto plural of person. (the peoples of africa) this. The flood which happened last week caused 100 people's. The title says it all.
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 Which word is correct and what is the difference between these words? Done, conducted, or administered in the course of following up persons.
(the people of france) peoples is the plural of people, in this second sense. People people's i heard somebody say that "people's does not work in a sentence.