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What is the difference between Person and People ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Person and People ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Person is singular, or just one person. Example: "That person is happy." People is plural, or more than one person. Example: "The people are happy."
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"Person" is one man or woman.
"People" is more than one man or woman.
Examples:
"Sarah is a good person."
"Sarah and John are good people."
"One person is strong, but 20 people are stronger."
"This person is very nice."
"People are very nice in America."
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- English (US)
Person is singular, or just one person. Example: "That person is happy." People is plural, or more than one person. Example: "The people are happy."
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- English (US)
Person (singular) and People (plural).
Ex: One person. 1 person.
Five people. 5 People.
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- English (US)
Person is singular. For example: That person is all by herself in the cafe.
People is multiple or more than one. For example: These people are all in the cafe together.
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- Indonesian
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Person refers to only 1 person (singular). People refers to more than 1 person (plural)
Ex.
That person wanted sneakers
Those people wanted sneakers
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- Turkish
person is for describe just one human. people is for lots of humans.
You are not a kind person.
people are not kind nowadays.
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- English (US) Near fluent
When you say Person thats single while People is Plural , Example : What kind of Person is your Uncle. Another example : Do you know that Person sitting at the Bench . Example for People : Those People from Asia are typically shorter height than People from Europe.
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