Today's Word of the Day - grammatical error!

Question

Whoops!! : This is wrong: "The people who work at that office of the department of motor vehicles is so rude."

Should be " ARE" so rude. In English, the word "people" takes a plural verb.

Spotted it a day ago m'dear. - ray76, Apr 25, 2015

Answer 1

The people who work at the DMV are so rude.

Yes they is , but they have the "power" . - ray76, Apr 25, 2015

Dmv? Sorry, Ray and Jp. .what do the initials stand for, please? - FELIZ77, Apr 25, 2015

D M V is the Department of motor vehicles where you get license plates and driver's licenses. - Daniela2041, Apr 25, 2015

Ah, I see Thank you for explaining that, Daniela :) We called it the D.V.L - FELIZ77, Apr 25, 2015

Ah, I see Thank you for explaining that, Daniela :) We called it the D.V.L.A in the UK:. - FELIZ77, Apr 25, 2015

Ray, " yes they is "? Yes, they 'are'!I thought this was a learning site lol hahaha - FELIZ77, Apr 25, 2015

Answer 2

Well noticed, Margarita,

You are of, course, completely correct, the word should be written in the plural form: are (not is)

Mistakes do happen as we are all human but as this is a language learning site we endeavour to correct them as soon as we realize / or they are brought to our attention!

Thank you for bringing it to our attention, hopefully one of the moderators or the person who posted the thread will read your post here and make the necessary correction!

It might be more effective, ie quicker, in future if you could leave a message in the comments section directly under the thread posted by whoever regularly posts the thread eg Rac or send the person a PM (private message)

Thank you once again

The W O D is usually sent out from an agency mate not directly from SD . - ray76, Apr 25, 2015

Actually SD does it. - rac1, Apr 25, 2015