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Old January 15, 2010, 02:03 AM
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(3) All collective nouns like "gente", "policía", etc., are conjugated in third person of singular, not in plural. Your sentence must be: "La gente es muy diferente a la gente que vive hoy en las ciudades grandes." .
I believe everything everyone says, but how come Irmamar can say (on another thread)
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Hay gente sin estudios académicos que son muy cultos, porque la cultura está al alcance de cualquiera.
This really confuses me.



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Be rigorous about correspondences with gender and number.
There should be agreement (=concordancia) between gender/number and adjective endings.
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