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TeacherJapan Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Do you use all these nouns?
Do you use all these expressions? Or does it sound too wordy?
1) other peoples' cultures
2) the cultures of other ethnic groups
1) other peoples' cultures
2) the cultures of other ethnic groups
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Both of these are correct, assuming that peoples refers to ethnic groups. However, because people's is very common and peoples' is pretty unusual, the latter can tend to look like a mistake for the former even when it is correctly used. Arguably this is no good reason not to use it correctly, but even so it might sway me towards a wording like (2).
- Both of these are correct, assuming that peoples refers to ethnic groups.
- However, because people's is very common and peoples' is pretty unusual, the latter can tend to look like a mistake for the former even when it is correctly used.
- Arguably this is no good reason not to use it correctly, but even so it might sway me towards a wording like (2).
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Both of these are correct, assuming that peoples refers to ethnic groups. However, because people's is very common and peoples' is pretty unusual, the latter can tend to look like a mistake for the former even when it is correctly used. Arguably this is no good reason not to use it correctly, but even so it might sway me towards a wording like (2).
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AlpheccaStarsJust "other cultures" works fine for me.You beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing.
You can't have a culture without people, so you don't really need "peoples'".
CJ
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