before "The people"
On the sidewalk, the people stared at the fast-moving car.
The sentence keeps meaning and makes sense.
B : Dr. James Naismith, a teacher, invented the game of basketball.
I would say suspense or tension but I'm not entirely sure because a motif is just a design, a catharsis is like releasing emotion from a suppressed feeling, tension is dragging things out, and suspense leaves readers on the edge of their seat.
, if a subject is singular, its verb must also be singular; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.