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Guest Posted 23 years ago
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Can you count people (Guest:Seb)
Hi! I need your input on this: can "people" actually be counted? I mean, can you really say 5, 10, 20 or 50 people?
I thought people was a term used to generally describe a croud, an "ensemble" of persons ... Tahnks for your answers.
I thought people was a term used to generally describe a croud, an "ensemble" of persons ... Tahnks for your answers.
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Yes, you can count people.. "
- Yes, you can count people..
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Yes, you can count people..
"There are 30 people in that crowd"
"The gang is 30 (members) strong"
"About 15 people saw him run away.."
"There are 30 people in that crowd"
"The gang is 30 (members) strong"
"About 15 people saw him run away.."
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What you actually count is not the people but the person; people is the plural form of person. We say one person but two people, three people and so on.
To refer to a large number of people gathered together, we use the word crowd, and the people referred to here is uncountable, meaning we don't know how many people are there in the crowd. Crowd itself is countable as you can say
To refer to a large number of people gathered together, we use the word crowd, and the people referred to here is uncountable, meaning we don't know how many people are there in the crowd. Crowd itself is countable as you can say
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