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it accepts both because in portuguese the article is used much more often than in english, in phrases where we wouldn't use "the" Portuguese does.. so it can be translated either way.
Voce sabe quando e correto para dizer as palavras com ou sem "as/os?"
pessoas is people, pessoa is person. In this case, "as" is a definite article but is used to mean indefinite amount of people, or simply "people" generally. Like how we always say "sometimes people do that, etc."
Person is not often used in the plural unless referring to the plural of a noun phrase such as, persons of interest (which in this case usually refers to individual people sought for questioning in a crime):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_interest
One person, two or more people.
Because, "would" is either a past tense form of the verb "will" or, a conditional tense in English and not simple present as in this DL exercise:
https://writingexplained.org/will-vs-would-difference
https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/verbs/
For instance:
When we gave to the homeless, the people would not refuse money.
This sentence could have an implied conditional:
[if we give it to them] the people would not refuse money
[if we gave it to them] the people would not refuse money
[if it was given to them...]
And "will" itself creates a different tense (usually future) than simple present as well:
So the Portuguese would be quite different with "would" in the sentence. :)
