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  • Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English and today I'm going to talk to you about person and persons, people and peoples.

  • A person is a human man, woman, or child.

  • It is a singular countable noun.

  • There was one person at the door.

  • The plural of person is people.

  • It refers to a group or a number of human beings.

  • It is a plural countable noun.

  • There were three people at the door.

  • So how about persons?

  • Persons is a plural countable noun.

  • It's similar to people, but it's considered more polite and more formal.

  • It's most often seen written down.

  • This lift can hold a maximum of 15 persons.

  • And peoples?

  • Peoples is the countable plural form of people and comes from the other meaning of people.

  • People can mean nation.

  • The Aztecs were a people that lived in the Americas.

  • Or, there are many peoples living on the Earth.

  • They are all human - so far.

Hi, I'm Dan from BBC Learning English and today I'm going to talk to you about person and persons, people and peoples.

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