Andrew Su, CEO at brokerage Compass Global Markets said the average cost of producing gold in Australia, home to some of the world's biggest gold miners, has jumped from $500 an ounce in 2007 to over $1,000 an ounce this year.
Persons (plural) is a very formal word. We only use it in rather legalistic contexts: [notice in a lift] Any person or persons found in possession of illegal substances will be prosecuted.
Someone or something must also be present in the sentence â the who or what youâre talking about in relation to the action or state of being expressed by the verb. The someone or something doing the action or being talked about is the subject. A someone must be a person and a something must be a thing, place, or idea.