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19. Okt. 2011 · There’s a very subtle difference. People on its own suggests that those in the list are there by chance. The people, on the other hand, suggests they been included deliberately. For practical purposes, however, it makes very little difference one way or the other. Share.
Persons and Peoples. Die Pluralform persons wird in offiziellen Texten (Regierungsdokumente, Polizeiberichte, etc.), aber nicht in der Alltagssprache verwendet. Persons betont, dass es sich um mehrere Einzelpersonen handelt, people hingegen bezieht sich auf die Gruppe als Ganzes. Beispiel: The police are searching for several missing persons.
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. To refer to groups of human beings or humans in general, we use people: I saw three people standing on the corner. Not: I saw three persons …
6. Juli 2016 · In both cases, 'people' are specific people. The first, those who have seen the bike, and the second, those who have ridden it. Shouldn't both take the definite article since the sentence does not talk about people in general, but specific people? Or maybe, shouldn't the definite article be left out in both cases?
- Peoplevs. Personsas Plurals
- Personsor Peoplein Formal Legal Writing
- Peoplevs. Peoplesfor Ethnic Groups and Nationalities
- Persons, People, Or Peoples?
Personand peopleboth derive from Latin, but from different words. Personcame from persona, which first meant “mask,” like that worn by an actor, but eventually came to mean “an individual human.” People, on the other hand, came from populus, which means “the people” in the sense of a group from the same nation, community, or ethnic group. There was...
In the legal world, including law enforcement, personsis used regularly. It is helpful because nothing is collective where the law is concerned; individuals are prosecuted, not groups. Some legal expressions, such as persons of interestand missing persons, reflect this grammatical preference. Some people use personsin writing that is legal-sounding...
When you refer to the people of a single ethnic group or nationality, always use the word people. Peoplesis only used in cases when it is necessary to distinguish between ethnic groups within the same geographical or cultural context.
The plural of personshould be peoplein the vast majority of contexts, although legalese uses the plural persons. Peoplesshould be reserved for instances where you are referring to more than one distinct ethnic group.
9. Mai 2024 · English Grammar. Determiners and quantifiers. The definite article: 'the' Level: beginner. The definite article the is the most frequent word in English. We use the definite article in front of a noun when we believe the listener/reader knows exactly what we are referring to: because there is only one: The Pope is visiting Russia.
What to Know. People should always be used when a collective noun referring to the entirety of a group or nation (i.e., "the French People") is called for. For references to groups of a specific or general number, either people or persons may be used. However, modern style guides tend to prefer people where earlier guides preferred persons, ...
