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What is the difference between People and Persons ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between People and Persons ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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"People" refers to an indeterminate number of humans (e.g. "many people") while "persons" refers to a specific number (e.g. "seven persons")
It's a little bit archaic, though - these days you always use "people", with "persons" only found in legal and formal writing. "This bus is licensed to hold 22 persons."
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