People can also mean a group persons, a population, or ethnicity. 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.
Ask question asked 5 years, 9 months ago modified 5 years, 9 months ago To me it sounds like it should be it rained on the heads of james, steve, and billy. Why do they use 'persons'.
People means a group of. The flood which happened last week caused 100 people's. 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).
I heard this phrase in tropic thunder. (the peoples of africa) this. The original question goes like this: How to address multiple peoples in email?
Grammarist says in modern english, people is the de facto plural of person. The sentence in question is it rained on the head of james, steve, and billy. 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. 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.