<p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Rita, </font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> We have at least 3 terms to describe the people living on earth. Man, mankind, human, human being, people. For the question raised by you why can't use the world human it's very easy to explain. There are only one specie of People who have intelligence and self control competence so that there only one human specie in the world. It's impossible to create another specie of another kind of human except the people from external planet if you use the human with plural form.</font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> Give you another example, person whose plural from is people. </font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">   eople(人复数) person(单数) Chinese People(中华民族) peoples(各个国家的人们)</font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> So now it's very simple to distinguish between person and people.</font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> 1.I'm a person, </font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> 2 we're people.</font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> 3 We're supposed to cooperate with each other to enhance the economic and politic relations between two peoples.(这里的People用复数是代表两族人民)</font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">O.K> Now it should be very clear that the difference between singular and plural from of those words. Hope you enjoy it</font><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p></span></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> </font></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>[此贴子已经被作者于2006-7-22 11:05:07编辑过] |
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<p>uppy,</p><p> Very appreciate your explanation for my questions, hehe!</p><p> You are so good at expressing yourself clearly in English , wish we can learn from each other </p> |
| <p>And by the way, dear Puppy, could you give me some examples for distinguishing the five differnt terms : man, mankind, human,human being , people????</p><p>Thanks in advance !</p> |
| Oh, time to have a nap, i have to leave for a while, see you later,dears |
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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Rita, </font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"> No big difference among these terms about people's use, it just comes to what you like and your daily habit for we know we could describe every thing by very different ways if you have enough rich vocabulary. So just choose what you like the best.</font></p>[em10] [此贴子已经被作者于2006-7-24 9:30:15编辑过] |
| Oh, thank u , dear puppy, i see what you mean, xixi ~~~ |
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