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Please help me with the grammar and correct my short writing if possile. Hi everyone, I have read a news this morning and noticed that there is a sentence "people familiar with the matter...". Based on my understanding, the word "familiar" is an adjective and it should be used after verb "to be". e.i. People are familiar with... May I know in what situation we can use like the sentence above. Thank you for very much. Here is a short paragraph that I copy from the news. "Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, a U.S.-based distressed-debt fund started by former Blackstone Group LP executives, raised $250 million for its first fund, people familiar with the matter said this month, while a group of former Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Holdings Plc plan to raise at least $250 million for a new credit investment fund"

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Please help me with my grammar and correct my writing if possible.

Hi everyone,
I have read a news story this morning and noticed that there is a sentence "people familiar with the matter...". Based on my understanding, the word "familiar" is an adjective and it should be used after verb "to be". e.i. People are familiar with... Could you tell me a situation where I can use "familiar" in a similar manner?

Thank you very much.

Here is the short paragraph that I copied from the news.

"Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, a U.S.-based distressed-debt fund started by former Blackstone Group LP executives, raised $250 million for its first fund, people familiar with the matter said this month, while a group of former Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Holdings Plc plan to raise at least $250 million for a new credit investment fund"

Great question! The exception you described is pretty much exclusively used when referring to an individual person or group of people. It is grammatically correct to say either "people familiar with the matter" or "people who are familiar with the matter".

Hope this helps!

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Please help me with the grammar and correct my short writing if possile.

Hi everyone,
I have read a news this morning and noticed that there is a sentence "people familiar with the matter...". Based on my understanding, the word "familiar" is an adjective and it should be used after verb "to be". e.i. People are familiar with... May I know in what situation we can use like the sentence above.

Thank you for very much.

Here is a short paragraph that I copy from the news.

"Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, a U.S.-based distressed-debt fund started by former Blackstone Group LP executives, raised $250 million for its first fund, people familiar with the matter said this month, while a group of former Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Holdings Plc plan to raise at least $250 million for a new credit investment fund"

Response:
Not sure what you want corrected.

People familiar with is short for "people who are familiar with"

just like "people able to speak more than one language have..." is short for People WHO ARE able to ..

The sentence that you copied from the news is a run-on sentence.  And it is unclear if the information about Deutsche Bank and HSBC come from the same "people familiar with the matter"







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Please help me with the grammar and correct my short writing if possile.

Hi everyone,
I have read a news article  this morning and noticed that there is a sentence "people familiar with the matter...". Based on my understanding, the word "familiar" is an adjective and it should be used after verb "to be". i.e.,  "People are familiar with... " May I know in what situation we can use    the sentence above.

Thank you for very much.

Here is a short paragraph that I copied from the news.

***** Yes, "people familiar with" IS correct.  You can think of it as "people (who are) familiar with...", and it is extremely common for people to not use the 'who are' part,  even in very formal speech, because "who are" is actually not a grammatical requirement.  ****

"Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, a U.S.-based distressed-debt fund started by former Blackstone Group LP executives, raised $250 million for its first fund, people familiar with the matter said this month, while a group of former Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Holdings Plc plan to raise at least $250 million for a new credit investment fund"

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