The peoples of the world unite when a calamity strikes any part of the world - Is correct??

Yes, the sentence is grammatically correct in English.

Please note, "peoples" has a different meaning from "people".

I'd prefer "people", but you can get away with "peoples".

I prefer "peoples" in this context.

It happens more at the level of "people" than of "peoples". I think.

MontereyJack: I'd prefer "people", but you can get away with "peoples".

McTag: I prefer "peoples" in this context.

You say tomato and I say to tomahto ...

re JTT, "The tomatoes of the world unite when a calamity strikes any part of the world"? No, I think you're barking up the wrong tree here.

... let's call the whole thing off

Tomatoes dont grow on trees

This is bollocks.
They mean different things.
Get a grip.

I know they do, McTag. I was just introducing a wee bit 'o glee.

Oh. Okay then.

Top o' the mornin to ye.


I do feel a wee bit concerned when we launch into esoteric minutiae of grammar and usage when the original questioner is a learner...a bit unhelpful, or at best puzzling to the originator. I don't mean you particularly, but everyone.

I find you puzzling, McT, and i am, at last theoretically, a native speaker.

If you knew the amount of minutiae in grammar that most ESL folks get in their home country, you probably wouldn't be as concerned. At least here they're getting the straight goods, not the silly nonsense that most have gotten from the old school.

Just one example. Ori asked a question about matching 'would' with another past tense lexical verb. He thought that it was necessary because of, one, some misguided notion about sequence of tenses/tense matching, two, he believed and may still do so, that modal verbs have tense.

How can he be expected to master one of the most difficult areas of English, the modal verbs, with that sort of silliness?

But how could this be?

Is not my text unfailingly as clear as the pure, limpid waters of a mountain stream?

Freudian slip?

Now please don't needle each other, I've got a headache.

Have you not seen very many mountain streams, Boss? They tend to rush, to tumble, to chatter--all those writerly descriptions for very busy water--but limpid? I think not.

Well that's very true.

Note to self- It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.