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Seagull Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

"People" as a general pronoun

Hello there,

I have a couple of questions.

Regarding the following four sentences:

(A) What do you call this bird in your country?
(B) What do people call this bird in your country?

(C) They sell many different kinds of goods at that shop.
(D) People sell many different kinds of goods at that shop.

I think that there's no problem with (A) and (C), but I'm not so sure about (B) and (D). How do they sound to native speakers? Are they natural English? Plus, are they grammatically correct to begin with?
  

Top answer

A) What do you call this bird in your country? OK (B) What do people call this bird in your country? OK (C) They sell many different kinds of goods at that shop.

— CalifJim

  • A) What do you call this bird in your country?
  • OK (B) What do people call this bird in your country?
  • OK (C) They sell many different kinds of goods at that shop.
  • OK (D) People sell many different kinds of goods at that shop.
  • , the owners, not "all the people in the world".
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A) What do you call this bird in your country? OK
(B) What do people call this bird in your country? OK
(C) They sell many different kinds of goods at that shop. OK
(D) People sell many different kinds of goods at that shop. Strange

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I understand.
Thank you so much indeed, CalifJim.
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