In the following question, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the button corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the ''No error'' option. People has always laughed at new ideas and daring experiments.?

Option 1 : People has always

The noun people has both a PLURAL sense and a SINGULAR sense.

In the PLURAL sense, people is used as the plural of person very frequently. It is a plural count noun and takes a plural verb. It is already plural.

Here we can clearly see that the sentence is talking about people in plural sense and not about one person. So option 1 is correct.  

NOTE: In contrast, the SINGULAR sense of people is used to refer to ALL the men, women, and children of a particular tribe, nation, country or ethnic group, speaking of them as a UNIT, and so the phrase a great people is indeed singular. It is a singular count noun.

Example sentence: The English people are a great people.