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people wants vs people want

Use "people want". Do not use "people wants".

Last updated: March 20, 2019 • 125029 views

This phrase is not correct. Don't use it.

"people wants"

Make the subject and verb agree.

"People" is plural, but "wants" is used with singular subjects.

"People want" is correct.
  • Just like everyone else, the Iranian people wants democracy and human rights.
  • What the young people wants is freedom, dear Álvarez!
  • Commissioner, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, when a people wants to free itself, it inspires our admiration and our solidarity.
  • And People wants you to pose at a pet store?
  • Deaths like these make people want revenge.
  • Isaac, Michael's people want editorial approval.
  • You... See what people want.
  • People want to believe reality's normal.
  • People want cars to project an image.
  • Of course people want eternal life.
  • And you should peddle something that people want.
  • No, nowadays people want something wittier.
  • People want social equality and less tax injustice.
  • Fewer people want to become seafarers.
  • Both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples want peace.
  • This is certainly not what people want.
  • The people want sensible cooperation and not dogmatic federalism.
  • Some people want more federalism, some people want less and that is where we have to understand that no one can be completely satisfied.
  • People want maturity, they want adults in Congress.
  • Look, people want to go home.

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • people want
  • people covet

This phrase is correct.

"people want"

"People want" indicates that people desire something.

Some examples from our editors:

  • The people want justice, so they are protesting.
  • The people at table 17 want more bread.
  • Our giveaway should attract customers because people always want free stuff.
  • No, nowadays people want something wittier.
  • Look, people want to go home.
  • Sometimes they're just stuck because the two people want different things.
  • Henry, these people want to help you.
  • The people want sensible cooperation and not dogmatic federalism.
  • Look, people want a hero.
  • Mtv is the way people want to experience music these days.
  • Now, that's something people want.
  • As you might imagine, not many people want to worship in a saloon.
  • Sometimes it helps to pass for what people want to see.
  • A lot of people want the Phoenix stone.
  • No, people want to win the lottery.
  • It's not always what people want to hear.
  • Nowadays people want glamour, and tears, the grand performance.
  • Some people want to be seen as the rebel.
  • If that's what people want.
  • And people want hear what winners have to say.
  • When people want the best, they page me.
  • Deaths like these make people want revenge.
  • Isaac, Michael's people want editorial approval.

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • people desire
  • people covet

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