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Fruit Shop Sells Vegetables General Uncountable Noun Eat

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Keyword fruit
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence The shop sells fruits and vegetables.
Correct Sentence The shop sells fruit and vegetables.
Cloze Error Sentence The shop sells [[fruits]] and vegetables.
Cloze Sentence The shop sells [[fruit]] and vegetables.
Cloze Answer fruit
Choices fruits | fruit
Explanation

Fruit (= fruit in general) is an uncountable noun: 'We eat lots of fruit in our family.' 'Would anyone care for a piece of fruit?' (= an orange, apple, pear etc)

Fruits (= particular types of fruit) is rarely used in British English.

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