I heard this phrase in tropic thunder. Grammarist says in modern english, people is the de facto plural of person. People can also mean a group persons, a population, or ethnicity.
How to address multiple peoples in email? The sentence in question is it rained on the head of james, steve, and billy. Given the title (how to make our life wonderful.?), i would consider that person is not using life correctly.
To me it sounds like it should be it rained on the heads of james, steve, and billy. The original question goes like this: Ask question asked 5 years, 9 months ago modified 5 years, 9 months ago 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.
Why do they use 'persons'. The title says it all. People and person have separate latin origins, and they came to english at different times by different paths, but. People people's i heard somebody say that "people's does not work in a sentence.
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). (the peoples of africa) this. The flood which happened last week caused 100 people's. Done, conducted, or administered in the course of following up persons.
People means a group of. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the given word.