<p>^ yours is of DIFFERENT cultureS. This example, and another explanation I have found says the word “peoples” is used as a collective noun for a group of individuals of a specific CULTURE (singular). So, the peoples of California (or California’s peoples)</p>
<p>Regardless, typically ACT questions are NOT this abstract. They do not require this overanalysis and necessarily extremely critical thinking. The right answer, if one knows the English language, is generally more obvious. Thus, the answer is what makes sense: people’s. They were simply testing your understanding that “people” is already plural and thus to make it possessive you add a “-'s.”</p>
<p>I still disagree. People is the plural of person. Persons is also the plural of people. Therefore, people’s =persons’. In this case, I tried both persons’ and people’s and they would both be correct EXCEPT I don’t remember the possessive being necessary. I definitely disagree with the fact that they wouldn’t test “peoples”. After all, this is supposed to include high school knowledge.</p>
<p>Maybe we should just wait and see lmao, because this back and forth isn’t going to achieve anything. I’ll post the answer to this and the teeny-tiny question when I get them :)</p>
<p>yea ^ peoples is also very rare to find also</p>
<p>ok, do u know when scores come out?</p>
<p>I put “peoples.” I’m not sure why, but it jumped immediately out to me as correct. I didn’t really think twice about it being wrong… but like you guys said, I guess we’ll see.</p>
<p>@jahamba- They’ll start coming online June 24th but it take 5-8 weeks for the actual paper results (which include the answers), but I’ll make a thread answering any questions over the answers once I get them.</p>
<p>Oh and “teeny-tiny” is incorrect; WAY too colloquial for the given context.</p>
<p>Teeny-tiny being colloquial isn’t even the main reason why it was wrong. It was talking about something being scaled down. Teeny-tiny would mean the paintings were just really small. They weren’t necessarily small, just smaller than the real thing.</p>
<p>Either way, it’s wrong.</p>
<p>^ we’ll see lol.</p>
<p>^ ya we will lol</p>
<p>^ haha, this reminds me so much of the teeny-tiny thing.</p>
<p>…why??</p>
<p>On the topic of the “peoples” discussion, I think the questions can be answered with whether or not the word was possessive. I agree with JalliDalli. When I read that question, I felt the possessive was NOT necessary, though since it has been a while I cannot remember why. I just remember that when I got on this forum after the test there was not doubt in my mind that “peoples” (not possessive) was the right answer.</p>
<p>@nina- EXACTLY lol. But wtv.</p>
<p>@liv- because there was a similar back and forth dispute on whether teeny-tiny or reduced-sized was the answer (if you go back to the earlier posts). Just as you’re saying peoples is a double plural, others were saying reduced-sized was in double past tense.</p>
<p>Just because there’s a dispute doesn’t mean the disputers’ argument is valid.</p>
<p>^ I’m not saying anything as to who’s right or wrong. I’m just saying it reminds me of an earlier dispute on this thread.</p>
<p>Just a correction to an earlier post, on the ACT website it says scores come out online starting June 27th, not the 24th.</p>
<p>athletes continue to gain attention worldwide</p>
<p>necessary to add it or not?
a) yes
b) yes
c) no, not important because only slightly relates to what was noted in beginning of article
d) no, because it was not significant that the event was athletic</p>
<p>cant remember the yes answers lol</p>