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Re: A personal question

#62489 03/27/2002 1:04 PM

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Bean

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Bean

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Would the word people ever take a singular verb?

Well, that's just the problem. We tend to use a singular article at times, like in (e) above, but the verb bit ("we are") is still plural. Is that not the strangest thing?

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