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 #32 (permalink) Wed Jun 29, 2011 16:28 pm Person or people? |
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ho Alan
thank you 4 ever think |
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Filly
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| #33 (permalink) Wed Jun 29, 2011 18:15 pm Person or people? |
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Hi Filly,
You mean
"Thank you for everything."
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| #34 (permalink) Sat Jul 09, 2011 16:51 pm Person or people? |
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Hello Alan,
Many thanks for your essay. I found lot of interesting things after looking into thoroughly the awkward pair of 'person and people'.
Only some:
person = individual, human, human being, figure, soul, character;(inf)type(humorous) mortal
collocations:
average person
normal person
ordinary person
key person
powerful person
person in charge
independent person
right person for sth
wrong person
spokesperson
salesperson
VIP
people person=who enjoys to talk to other people
etc.
illustrative sentences:
The virus is spread from person to person.
What are you like as a person?
He is a warm but a very private person.
idioms:
1.in the person of sb
Help arrived in the person of my teacher.
2.be no respecter of persons
Death is no respecter of persons.
be not respecter of persons=to treat everyone in the same way without being influenced by their importance etc.
People =(inf.) folk
I don't care what people think of me.
collocations:
young people/folk
elderly people/folk
rich people/folk
poor people/folk
black people/folk
white people/folk
city people/folk =townspeople
country people/folk
local people/ folk
people (pl) so the verb after it is always in plural form.
peoples= nation
In this course there are lot of American people who can't make a distinction between the American English and British English. These people think only the American English is correct.
idiom:
1.People (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
2.man of the people
You are not only a teacher but also a man of the people.= a man who understands and is sympathetic to ordinary people.
Regards:
Kati Svaby
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 Kati Svaby
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| #35 (permalink) Sun Sep 18, 2011 17:41 pm Re: Person or people? |
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We use "person" to say for only one man or one woman.We use "people" to say for more one persons"
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heno_erla@yahoo.co.id
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| #36 (permalink) Thu May 03, 2012 18:41 pm Person or people? |
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as usual great essay.
Thank you |
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Gsheasha
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