people.. people.. people.. we're just ordinary people, we just need to take it slow people, people, people, my favorite from the band, The Doors people are strange and so is the word 'people' it's a strange word, so let's take a look at
some of the common mistakes that you might be making with this word 'people' so, 'people' is an irregular plural noun but what does that mean? firstly, it is irregular because
when we have the singular word person meaning one person like normal nouns we
don't ad
d an S we change the word completely so person becomes people when
spoken in plural this is what makes it an irregular noun, here are some other
examples of irregular nouns, so child when plural, becomes children, man becomes
men, woman becomes women, with these nouns are where lots of mistakes are
made, so it's very important to learn and understand that these nouns change when
you're talking about singular one thing or plural two or more things, so let's
take a look at the top seven mistakes t
hat I hear and that you might be making,
number one, which sentence is correct people is strange or people are strange people are strange is the correct sentence, why? well, because
we use 'are' when following a plural now people are if we wanted to use 'is' we
would have to make the noun singular a person is strange
people are strange when describing people we are going to use people are,
people are happy, people are sad, thank you to all the people who are watching, that one's for you guys, nu
mber two which sentence is correct
people don't respect the environment or people doesn't respect the environment people don't respect the environment
people do not respect the environment don't is a contraction of do not so this
is the present simple grammar structure this all depends on our subject in our
sentence so let me explain when the subject is i you we they or a third
person plural subject, such as, people we use an infinitive structure verb after our
subject so I don't you don't, we d
on't, they don't, people
don't, children don't, and so and so on so on so on, when the subject of my sentence
starts with he/she/it or a third person singular subject like, a person, a child,
we change our structure by adding an S or an ES to the verb that follows our
subject, so for example, he doesn't, she doesn't, it doesn't, the person doesn't, so this mistake is very common but it's all about remembering your subject and verb
relationship with a present simple tense which is the first tense
we learn but
actually where a lot of mistakes still happen it's very important that you
focus on this and spend a little bit of time making sure that you understand
that this subject relates to this verb structure people don't respect the
environment guys remember to respect the environment okay number three which
sentence is correct people has so much time or people have so much time I just explained these rules in mistake
number two so you should have answered people have so much time, people
have, a
person has, number four which one is correct, that people are always happy or
those people easy right those people are always happy, so we use
those with plural nouns, we use that with singular nouns, so those people, that
person, mistake number five, which sentence is correct, I like to meet other people
or I like to meet another people other we say other people, use other with
plural nouns, so other people, other things we use another a singular nouns
another person, another thing, nu
mber six which sentence is correct there are too much
people in this room or there are too many people in this room there are too many people, firstly the
word people can we count people can I say how many people there are in a place
yes I can say there are two people three people four people so with what we call
countable nouns we use many with with the word much we use with what we call
uncountable nouns things we can't count for example water I can't say I have
five water please doesn't make
any sense, yep so with water
it's an uncountable noun so we use much I have too much water, you can never have too much water oh yeah you can okay last one mistake number seven which sentence
is correct each people should learn English or every people should learn
English it's a trick none are correct, so with each
and every we're going to use with our singular nouns not with our plural nouns, it is correct to say every person or each person so people these mistakes they are
very common because
of these simple grammatical errors it's up to you to
improve your awareness of these mistakes the next time you use your English be
thinking and trying to avoid these mistakes eventually what will start to
happen is when you make this mistake you will realize and you were correct
yourself then you will be on the path of self correction which is a great path to
be on it means you're going to become more fluent and more confident with your
speaking thank you very much for watching and I hope you l
earned
something new today remember to subscribe somewhere and guys remember to
download the free exercise page that I have attached for this lesson for all of
these mistakes that we have covered today
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