Personnel who receive

[Ched133]

Hello,

I read this sentence in my textbook and i'm not sure why "receive" was used instead of "receives"

Personnel who receives
Personnels who receive

"Authorization of credit memos by personnel who receive cash may permit the misappropriation of cash."

[Jamie (K)]

In that sentence, "personnel" means "people" or "employees", so it's treated as plural.

[Ched133]

why the author doesn't use "personnels" instead.

Or is "personnel" not a word

[Jamie (K)]

[Torsten]

Hi Jamie,

Would "no plural form of the word 'personnel'" correct here too?
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[Jamie (K)]

[Ched133]

Hi,

Thanks but i have another question. When i look up a word on a dictionary, is there a way for me to tell what the plural form of that word is? I looked this word up in the dictionary and I can't find anywhere in the text that shows the plural form.

per·son·nel /ˌpɜrsəˈnɛl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pur-suh-nel] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
2. (used with a plural verb) persons: All personnel are being given the day off.

[Jamie (K)]

Good dictionaries give the plural form. Yours didn't, because there is no plural form.

What your dictionary did instead was to show you in definition 2 that the singular form can be used with a plural verb form.

[Ched133]

>>why the author doesn't use "personnels" instead. - from me

>>Why doesn't the author use "personnel" instead? - from Jamie

I was wondering if what i wrote was grammatically incorrect?

[Torsten]

As Jamie has pointed out, there is no plural form of 'personnel' so the word 'personnels' does not exist.
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[Ched133]

Hi

Sorry for the confusion, i was referring to the

Why doesn't the author use "XXXXXXX" instead - she bolded DOES'T THE AUDITOR so I thought this might have to do with my grammar

I guess i was trying to say if "why the author DOESN'T use XXXXX instead" is grammatically correct.

Thanks

[Torsten]

Yes, the correct question would be Why doesn't the author use .....
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[Ched133]

Thanks

Why would this be wrong? What is the grammatical rule behind this? Any explaination would be very helpful

Why he DOES NOT use

[Torsten]

question word (why) + auxiliary verb (doesn't) + subject (he) + verb (use)

Don't try to cram grammar rules into your head, they will get in the way when you want to speak clogging up your brain.
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[Julia]

The auxiliary verb usually goes in front of the subject when the sentence is interrogative.

Doesn't he drink coffee generally?

Isn't he drinking coffee today?

Wasn't he drinking coffee when you saw him?