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Specializations => Morphosyntax => Topic started by: Natalia on May 11, 2015, 10:49:13 AM

Title: fruit or fruits?
Post by: Natalia on May 11, 2015, 10:49:13 AM

Hello. Can you tell me which of these two forms is more commonly used in English? as in:
1) On the table there is some fruit.
2) On the table there are some fruits.

Title: Re: fruit or fruits?
Post by: Daniel on May 11, 2015, 03:16:26 PM

It depends on your meaning. The first refers to fruit to eat in general and the second refers to different kinds of fruit like apples, oranges and bananas. I think the first is more frequent but both are valid.