3 sentences about apple fruit

Рабочая тетрадь Spotlight 6. Workbook. Страница 53

9a. Food & drink — Еда и напитки

a) Look at the pictures and tick (✓) the items that are on the shopping list. — Посмотрите на картинки и отметьте те, которые есть в списке покупок

• bananas — бананы
• milk — молоко
• fish (4) — рыба
• carrots — морковь
• potatoes (2) — картофель
• apples (7) — яблоки
• meat (6) — мясо
• chicken — курица
• bread — хлеб
• eggs (1) — яйца

b) Say in which section of the supermarket we can find the products on the shopping list. — Скажите, в каком отделе супермаркета мы можем найти продукты из списка

• dairy • bakery • meat & poultry • seafood • fruit & vegetables

The bananas are in the fruit and vegetable section. — Бананы — в секции фруктов и овощей

• Milk and eggs are in the dairy section. — Молоко и яйца в секции молочных продуктов
• Bread is in the bakery section. — Хлеб — в секции хлебобулочных изделий
• Meat and chicken are in the meat & poultry section. — Мясо и курица — в секции «мясо и курица»
• Fish is in the seafood section. — Рыба — в секции морепродуктов
• Carrots, potatoes and apples are in the fruit & vegetable section. — Морковь, картошка, яблоки — в секции фрукты и овощи

2. Choose the correct item. — Выберите правильный вариант

I always have a big breakfast before I leave for school. I start with 1) some / many orange juice and eggs. After that I have 2) a / an small bowl of cereal with 3) much / a little milk. Sometimes I eat 4) a / an apple or 5) a / any banana with my cereal. When mum makes her special pancakes, I have 6) a few / much with 7) a / some big glass of milk. My older sister always yells at me because I eat so 8) much / many food.

Я всегда плотно завтракаю перед школой. Я начинаю с апельсинового сока и яиц. После этого я съедаю маленькую чашку хлопьев с большим количеством молока. Иногда я съедаю яблоко и банан вместе с хлопьями. Когда мама делает свои блинчики, я съедаю несколько и запиваю молоком в большом стакане. Моя старшая сестра всегда орёт на меня, потому что я ем очень много.

3. a) Match the words in the two columns. — Объедините слова из двух колонок

• a carton of milk; — упаковка молока
• a bottle of oil; — бутылка масла
• a piece of cheese; — кусок сыра
• a kilo of oranges; — килограмм апельсинов
• a box of chocolates; — коробка шоколада
• a loaf of bread; — булка хлеба

b) Use words from Ex. 3a to complete the sentences. — Используйте слова из упр. 3а, чтобы дополнить предложения

1. A: What do you want from the baker’s? — Что вы хотите купить в пекарне?
   B: Only a loaf of bread. — Только булку хлеба.
2. A: How much milk do your children drink? — Сколько молока пьют ваши дети?
   B: About a carton a day. — Примерно пакет в день.
3. A: Would you like some bread? — Не хотели бы хлеба?
   B: Yes, please. And could I have a piece of cheese with that, too? — Да, пожалуйста. И не могли бы принести кусочек сыра с ним?
4. A: My salad is too dry. Where’s the bottle of oil? — Мой салат слишком сухой. Где бутылка с маслом?
   B: On the kitchen table. — На кухонном столе.
5. A: What are you bringing Elizabeth for her birthday? — Что ты принесешь на день рождение Елизаветы?
   B: A box of chocolates. — Коробку шоколада.
6. A: I’m making a fruit salad. I need apples, bananas… — Я делаю фруктовый салат. Мне нужны яблоки, бананы…
   B: And about a kilo of oranges. — И примерно килограмм апельсинов.

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Grammar Help Please..

Hi!
I have a few questions.
Are these sentences correct? If they aren’t, why?

1. ‘My favourite fruit is an apple.’
‘My favourite fruit is apple.’
‘My favourite fruit are apples.’
‘My favourite fruit is apples.’

2. ‘The cheapest food is cakes.’

3. ‘She wanted to go to the library because she wanted to borrow books.’
‘She wanted to go to the library because she wants to borrow books.’

Do help me out. Thanks!

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• Guest

I choose » My favourite fruit is apples «

» The cheapest food is cake. «

She wanted to go to the library because she ( wanted ) to borrow books. ( the main clause and the subodinate clause should be in parallel in terms of the tenses )

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• whl626

Hello!
Is it possible to use a noun withou article in English?

«The cheapest food is cake» or «The cheapest food is a cake»? Which one is better to write or maybe both. I am not sure, English not my first language.

Thanks. Good luck!

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• EnglishFanatic

As far as I know, noun without an article in front is normally used to mean something in general.

The use of ‘ a ‘ means referring to a single thing.

The use of ‘ the ‘ for the purpose of specifying the particular thing.

eg. Life is short, we’d better live to the fullest . We don’t say a life or the life since it means the general life.

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• whl626

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• EnglishFanatic

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• daniel salas

I think ‘ is ‘ is correct. The singular subject goes with the singular verb.

The use of plural noun after the verb is very much dependent on its necessity at times.

eg. To organize such a benefit concert, I would rather use local talent. ( of course we might choose more than 1 person to the concert but still we say ‘ talent ‘ instead of ‘ talents ‘ ) because the point is not on the number of people.

Since there is no clear-cut explanation in this respect, I see it from this perspective and whether they are right or wrong to say so is well beyond me, hah

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• whl626

1. a. ‘My favourite fruit is an apple.’
b. ‘My favourite fruit is apple.’
c. ‘My favourite fruit are apples.’
d. ‘My favourite fruit is apples.’

— You don’t like an apple in particular. ‘My favourite fruit is an apple from Brazil, but I don’t know (or don’t remember) exactly what apple it is’. Then option a. is out.
— ‘My favourite fruit’ requires a singular verb. Thus, it couldn’t be letter c.
— As long as ‘My favourite fruit is’, again, needs a singular object, the only correct answer is letter b.

2. The cheapest food is cake. (See the explanation above.)

3. Both. But if she has already bought it, the second one wouldn’t make sence.

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• buggah

The following are both correct:
1. (in the singular) — My favourite fruit is THE apple
2. (in the plural) — My favourite fruit IS apples»

Alternatively, turn it around:
1. (in the singular) — THE apple is my favourite fruit.
2. (in the plural) — Apples ARE my favourite fruit.

EXPLANATION: «fruit» is a mass noun (in this context), so it always takes the singular. The verb «to be» takes its form from the left hand item. Compare the following two (correct) sentences:
3. My favourite music IS The Beatles
4. The Beatles ARE my favourite music

The word «the» makes apple generic, for some curious reason.

«My favourite fruit ARE . » is always wrong, for reasons stated above.
«My favourite fruit is AN apple» is wrong because it’s not generic.

The suggested variant «My favourite fruit is apple» is meaningless in practice. Please observe that, in this example, the word apple is being used as a mass noun, not as a count noun. (As in the phrase «I like apple»). In this context, «apple» has a different meaning — perhaps something like «the flavour of apple» or «the concept of apple». This may NOT complete the sentence «My favourite fruit is. «. That would be nonsense. But «My favourite FLAVOUR is apple» makes perfect sense because the right-hand-side is the same kind of thing as the left-hand-side.

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Рабочая тетрадь Spotlight 6. Workbook. Страница 53

9a. Food & drink — Еда и напитки

a) Look at the pictures and tick (✓) the items that are on the shopping list. — Посмотрите на картинки и отметьте те, которые есть в списке покупок

• bananas — бананы
• milk — молоко
• fish (4) — рыба
• carrots — морковь
• potatoes (2) — картофель
• apples (7) — яблоки
• meat (6) — мясо
• chicken — курица
• bread — хлеб
• eggs (1) — яйца

b) Say in which section of the supermarket we can find the products on the shopping list. — Скажите, в каком отделе супермаркета мы можем найти продукты из списка

• dairy • bakery • meat & poultry • seafood • fruit & vegetables

The bananas are in the fruit and vegetable section. — Бананы — в секции фруктов и овощей

• Milk and eggs are in the dairy section. — Молоко и яйца в секции молочных продуктов
• Bread is in the bakery section. — Хлеб — в секции хлебобулочных изделий
• Meat and chicken are in the meat & poultry section. — Мясо и курица — в секции «мясо и курица»
• Fish is in the seafood section. — Рыба — в секции морепродуктов
• Carrots, potatoes and apples are in the fruit & vegetable section. — Морковь, картошка, яблоки — в секции фрукты и овощи

2. Choose the correct item. — Выберите правильный вариант

I always have a big breakfast before I leave for school. I start with 1) some / many orange juice and eggs. After that I have 2) a / an small bowl of cereal with 3) much / a little milk. Sometimes I eat 4) a / an apple or 5) a / any banana with my cereal. When mum makes her special pancakes, I have 6) a few / much with 7) a / some big glass of milk. My older sister always yells at me because I eat so 8) much / many food.

Я всегда плотно завтракаю перед школой. Я начинаю с апельсинового сока и яиц. После этого я съедаю маленькую чашку хлопьев с большим количеством молока. Иногда я съедаю яблоко и банан вместе с хлопьями. Когда мама делает свои блинчики, я съедаю несколько и запиваю молоком в большом стакане. Моя старшая сестра всегда орёт на меня, потому что я ем очень много.

3. a) Match the words in the two columns. — Объедините слова из двух колонок

• a carton of milk; — упаковка молока
• a bottle of oil; — бутылка масла
• a piece of cheese; — кусок сыра
• a kilo of oranges; — килограмм апельсинов
• a box of chocolates; — коробка шоколада
• a loaf of bread; — булка хлеба

b) Use words from Ex. 3a to complete the sentences. — Используйте слова из упр. 3а, чтобы дополнить предложения

1. A: What do you want from the baker’s? — Что вы хотите купить в пекарне?
   B: Only a loaf of bread. — Только булку хлеба.
2. A: How much milk do your children drink? — Сколько молока пьют ваши дети?
   B: About a carton a day. — Примерно пакет в день.
3. A: Would you like some bread? — Не хотели бы хлеба?
   B: Yes, please. And could I have a piece of cheese with that, too? — Да, пожалуйста. И не могли бы принести кусочек сыра с ним?
4. A: My salad is too dry. Where’s the bottle of oil? — Мой салат слишком сухой. Где бутылка с маслом?
   B: On the kitchen table. — На кухонном столе.
5. A: What are you bringing Elizabeth for her birthday? — Что ты принесешь на день рождение Елизаветы?
   B: A box of chocolates. — Коробку шоколада.
6. A: I’m making a fruit salad. I need apples, bananas… — Я делаю фруктовый салат. Мне нужны яблоки, бананы…
   B: And about a kilo of oranges. — И примерно килограмм апельсинов.

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Is using «fruits» as the plural of «fruit» acceptable?

I’ve always understood the plural of fruit to be fruit, not fruits.

I was looking at some marketing material and they used the word «fruits» in the following context:

A unique infusion made with . strawberry, raspberry and cranberry fruits

In discussion with someone about this sentence, he described that the plural of person is not necessarily always people, and could be persons. Therefore it’s possible that fruits could be a legitimate plural form.

Is fruits used correctly in this context, or could it be used correctly in ANY context?

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Your example sentence is fine. The plural of fruit is fruits. You are confused over the matter of countable and uncountable nouns.

This is tricky to explain, because there are few strict rules about which nouns are countable and uncountable, so I will hope you will forgive this over-simplified account:

• Some nouns (e.g. chair) are countable. We can say «one chair», «two chairs», etc. They have singular and plural forms.
• Other nouns are uncountable. We do not say «one fun» «two funs». There is no plural form of fun.
• Many nouns have both countable and uncountable senses. E.g. you can have a bar of chocolate [uncountable], or a box of chocolates [countable, plural].
• Nouns for classes of foodstuff (fruit, meat, cheese, etc.) are usually uncountable, but they take a countable sense when we talk about different varieties (a wide selection of cold meats and cheeses).

Your example sentence talks about different varieties of fruit, so fruits is fine.

If you want to talk about two apples and an orange, you would not use fruits, but pieces of fruit.

John ate three pieces of fruit; he must have been hungry.

If you want to talk about different kinds of fruit, you use fruits:

John’s three favorite fruits are apples, bananas, and papayas.

If you want to say John ate two orange segments and a quarter of an apple, you can say

(not pieces of pieces of fruit).

There is nothing wrong with the word «fruits». However, «fruit» is used in various ways, and some of them have some overlap with the ways «fruits» is used.

What’s “acceptable” seems like a matter of opinion. I just go with what sounds natural to me.

“fruits” as uncountable noun with plural verb agreement

The plural form “fruits” certainly exists. In its most traditional uses, it is not exactly “countable”, as it is used collectively or generally to refer to the products of something (either soil, or something more abstract). E.g., the Oxford English Dictionary gives the following quotations as examples for its first definition of “fruit”:

1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §3 If the husk or seeds are eaten, they are called the fruits of the ground.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 20 The Breton peasant can turn all the fruits of the earth to account.

“fruit” as uncountable noun with singular verb agreement

The uncountable noun “fruit” (which takes singular verb agreement, like a mass noun) also exists. This is probably the most common use of the word “fruit”, so I won’t supply any examples.

“fruit” as countified mass noun, with countable plural “fruits” or “fruit”

Like nearly all mass nouns, this can be converted into a count noun “fruit” meaning “a type of fruit”, and this has a corresponding plural form meaning “types of fruit”. This plural form is often “fruits”, but I have found evidence that some people use “fruit” as a plural count noun. E.g.

Many fruit from the genus Vaccinium are rich in phytonutrients, including those with potent antioxidant properties.

– “Blueberry and Cranberry”, by Charles F. Forney and Wilhelmina Kalt, in Health-promoting Properties of Fruits and Vegetables, edited by Leon Alexander Terry

“fruit” as conventional count noun, with countable plural “fruits” or “fruit”

I agree with Peter Shor that when dealing with countable objects like apples, oranges and peaches, the most natural expression seems to be “pieces of fruit” (singular: “piece of fruit”).

However, some people do refer to these objects using the word “fruit” as a countable noun, with a countable plural form. As with the separate “type of fruit” use of countable “fruit”, it seems the plural form can be “fruits” or “fruit”.

Example of singular countable «fruit» in the sense of «a piece of fruit»:

However, there is a particular point at which a fruit reaches what is described as the ‘mature green’ stage. While the fruit is developing, the surface has a slightly wrinkled, matt appearance. At this stage it is still immature

– A Post Harvest Handling System for Sweet Peppers, Research Division: Ministry of Food Production and Marine Exploitation

From one of these pips sprang the original apple, the present tree being a sucker which grew from the parent root. Though still green, it was very old and thin, and in 1901 had not borne a single fruit.

Examples of plural countable “fruits” in the sense of “pieces of fruit”:

Fresh fruit is traditionally represented as the delicious offering of taste, and frequently a triangular formation of three round fruits will be depicted at the left or right side of the offering bowl.”

Examples of plural countable “fruit” in the sense of “pieces of fruit”:

The deep purple fruit has a waxy bloom, is round, and ranges in size from 0.6 to 1.2 cm in diameter and is borne in clusters of a few to many fruit.

– “Berberidaceae”, by Chad E. Finn, in The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts, edited by Jules Janick and Robert E. Paull

There should be a preparatory thinning at the time of stoning, and a final thinning afterwards, because most plants, especially such as have overborne themselves, drop many fruit at that crisis.

– Abercrombie, in The New American Gardener, by Thomas G. Fesseden (p. 241)

For nondestructive evaluations, the same three fruit at each temperature were evaluated every second day; three additional fruit per storage temperature were removed every second day for destructive analyses.

– Something in the Proceedings of the . Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society, Volume 118 (sorry, Google Books only shows a snippet view and doesn’t show the full title)

By giving examples, I merely hope to show that all of the usages discussed here actually exist. I don’t know enough to describe their relative frequencies, or how they are distributed among different sorts of people. For example, it may turn out that one is agricultural jargon, or only common among ESL speakers, or a marginal usage that just pops up from time to time. Some of these could even be just typos or other kinds of basic production errors. I would love to see a more extensive analysis of the use of this word that revealed any of these things.

(Also, it’s likely that one or more of the usages listed here sounds wrong to somebody. None of them are particularly grating to my ears, but I’m just one person.)

In this answer, I haven’t even gotten into the more marginal derived uses of the word “fruit” like the “fruit(s) of the Holy Spirit” in Christianity or the slang, commonly derogatory use to refer to a gay man.

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