Thread: I need help correcting a few different sentences :)
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Old January 15, 2010, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar
(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.
What happens is that probably irmamar meant to write personas instead of gente.

It's a lapsus fingerous...or digitalis
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