SPAM-LOW: Whoever comes is the right people

[Lucy Garrick - NorthShore Group]

People is plural
Are is plural

the noun and verb should match.


An easy way to check is to reverse your sentence.

i.e. The people who come are the right people.



On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Seen I started opening space I have been using "Whoever comes is the  
> right people" and quite often people tell me it is not grammatically  
> correct. Why it is "is" ?
>
> Wonderingly Bhav...
>
>
>
> From: Michael M Pannwitz Subject: Re: AW: Anti Laws of OST -  
> Foundations of OST? I mostly call them "Tatsachen des Lebens" which  
> translates pretty much into "Facts of Life"...and usually embellish  
> them with sayings that have been around for a couple of hundreds of  
> years showing that they are commonly accepted Facts of Life. The  
> addition to "Whatever happens is the only thing that could have" in  
> German is "Wenn der Hund nicht geschissen haette, haette er den Has'  
> gefangen." What I really like is that most of us use the same  
> wording as found in the Users Guide...hearing them (or seeing them  
> hung up spaced around the circle of chairs) I instantly know its  
> open space and feel comfortable and excited. There has been a  
> ghastly attack, however, by some nincompoop editor of "Wave Rider"  
> on the wholy grail of the "principles". While on page 71 the "First  
> Principle" is given correctly as "Whoever comes is the right  
> people", beginning with page 167 the wording of this principle (I  
> will not write down the wording here!!)has been horribly maimed.  
> Maybe its not too late to ask BK to immediately start a reprint with  
> the appropriate wording and to recall the entire first edition of  
> Wave. Greetings from Berlin mmp
>
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