{"id":37,"date":"2014-11-12T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T01:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-09-16T08:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T00:46:20","slug":"37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/2014\/11\/12\/37\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit or Fruits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My dear students, are you sometimes confused about &#8220;fruit&#8221; and &#8220;fruits&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a good text \u00a0that teach you how to use &#8220;fruit&#8221; and &#8220;fruits&#8221; quoted from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocabulary.cl\/english\/fruit.htm\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.vocabulary.cl\/english\/fruit.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>Fruit<\/em> is a noun. The word is an exception where the noun is both <a title=\"Countable and Uncountable Nouns in English\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grammar.cl\/Notes\/Countable_Uncountable_Nouns.htm\">countable and uncountable<\/a>. So the plural of Fruit can be either Fruit OR Fruits.<\/p>\n<p>When we think of Fruit as a group collectively and in a non-specific way, then we tend to use the word Fruit (without S).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You should eat five servings of fruit and vegetables every day.<\/li>\n<li>Fruit is good for your health.<\/li>\n<li>Would you like some fruit?<\/li>\n<li>There isn&#8217;t much fresh fruit available in winter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are emphasising the different kinds of fruit, then you can use <em>fruits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My three favorite fruits are bananas, melons and strawberries.<\/li>\n<li>The supermarket has a wide selection of exotic fruits such as Papaya and Mango.<\/li>\n<li>The juice is made from a variety of fresh fruits.<\/li>\n<li>I love oranges and other citrus fruits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are not sure which to use, the safest thing is to just use <em>Fruit<\/em> all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My dear students, are you sometimes confused abo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,11],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3rd-grade","tag-fruit","tag-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bjes.tp.edu.tw\/funenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}