1. When you ride on a bus, usually you are in the bus. If you use. There must be a cellphone charger on the bus. it would mean somewhere within the bus either someone might have a charger or the bus company supplied one for general use on the the bus. The charger itself would be considered to be in the bus. in the bus.
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3. The other answers are making this waaay too complicated."You people" roughly means"you and the group you are in", sometimes with a slightly negative connotation. In the movie clip you posted, the joke is that the sergeant is referring to the black soldier's membership in the group of soldiers, but the black soldier interprets it as meaning ...
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As a singular pronoun, them can only refer to a person, e.g."If someone asks you for help, give them a hand." versus"If you drop a ball, pick them up." Your answer explains the asker's example, but not the source of their confusion: that them can be singular or plural. – talrnu.
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A collection or cluster of things of the same kind, either growing together (as a bunch of grapes), or fastened closely together in any way (as a bunch of flowers, a bunch of keys); also a portion of a dress gathered together in irregular folds. 4. fig. A collection, ‘lot’. Also, a company or group of persons.
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In [20.iii], coxed pairs involve three people (two rowers and the cox), so the presupposition is again that the answer is plural. The reflexive has to be plural, and this favours a plural verb. Finally, [iv] presupposes a generic bare plural as answer, e.g. foxes , but the motivation for a plural override is relatively small since the answer could be given in the form of a generic singular, e ...
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Most normal people would be surprised to learn that the Bishop of Durham was a corporation for instance. In English law the word"individual" is often used for a natural person. In this usage"persons" is the correct plural and"people" would be wrong. Corporations are person not people.
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There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms. These latter include a bow or a curtsy, then . On presentation to The Queen, the correct formal address is 'Your Majesty' and subsequently 'Ma'am,' pronounced with a short 'a,' as in 'jam'.
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Which one is correct:"There is a few people" because of the A determiner which is singular, or"there are a few people" because of the noun PEOPLE which is plural? Thanks a lot.
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Yous is commonly heard in Australia among people who are popularly referred to as bogans, but is also heard in the more regional parts of the country. A bogan is someone who is a little rough around the edges, probably poorly educated or sometimes just pretending to be (A 'bogan' who went to a private school since kindergarten is a particularly interesting phenomenon).
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People that think they are always right are normal. People don't function well when thinking they are wrong. And if they think they are wrong and tell you, we call those people liars. If they think they're right and they are not we call those people mistaken, if they think they are right and they are we call those people correct.
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