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Khoshtip Posted 11 years ago
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What is the mistake in this sentence please?

There is still poeple in California who searches for gold.
  

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3 mistakes. There is still poeple in California who searches for gold.

  • 3 mistakes.
  • There is still poeple in California who searches for gold.
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3 mistakes.

There is still poeple in California who searches for gold.
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poeple was just a typo, ignore it plz Emotion: wink
All the persons of the people in that sentence, do same work and are like a unit, so why w
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khoshtipAll the persons of the people in that sentence, do same work and are like a unit, so why we need to use of plural verbs?
Because 'people' is a plural word. It has the idea of 'more than one person'.
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I'd heard from before that when the word "people" or simply a group, are doing a common or a joined work, we should consider them like a singular unit!
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khoshtipI'd heard from before that when the word "people" or simply a group, are doing a common or a joined work, we should consider them like a singular unit!
You heard wrongly.
People is always plural.
An organization of people - company, team, rock band, etc. can be treated as singular or plural.

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