Is fruits singular or prural

Answer 1

The plural form for uncountable (mass) nouns for some substances, including uncountable nouns for foods, are reserved for 'types of' or 'kinds of'. For example:

• We can have some fruit with our Sandwiches.
• They served a number of fruits like melon, strawberries, grapes, and plums.
• You will need two sugars for this recipe, dark brown and white granulated.
• The teas on the menu were green, black, and jasmine.

In general, each English noun falls into one of two categories depending on its meaning. These categories are sometimes called mass nouns and count nouns. (There are other categories, and a noun may also fall into one or more of them, but these are the two that are relevant to this question.) The difference between mass nouns and count nouns is not a purely grammatical one. Rather, it is a difference of meaning that is reflected in grammar. Generally, mass nouns refer to some more or less continuous stuff or substance that is not readily counted, while count nouns refer to distinct things or entities that can, in principle, be counted. Grammar reflects the difference between mass and count nouns in two ways: (1) mass nouns can be singular but not plural while count nouns can be either singular or plural and (2) mass nouns cannot be specified with the (singular) indefinite article a/an while count nouns, when singular, can be specified with a/an. Note that a noun can have more than one meaning, and it's normal for a noun that can be used as a mass noun (that is, which can refer to a substance) to also be usable as a count noun (usually referring to some unit or kind of the mass noun's substance). However, at any one time (in any one use) a noun has only one meaning, which is either mass or count. Sometimes grammar is the only way to tell, with certainty, which meaning a noun has. The word water is most often used as a mass noun: "The plants need water." In this example, the use of a singular form of water without an article indicates that it has a mass meaning--it is mass water. But a customer in a restaurant might say, "We'll have three waters and a coffee." In this example, the use of a plural form of water indicates it has a count meaning--it is count water (here, meaning servings of mass water).

The word fruit is generally used as a mass noun, having only singular forms. (Incidentally, don't get hung up on the use of the word substance here. In essence, English considers fruit a kind of substance.) The conventional way to use fruit to refer to specific (countable) apples, Oranges, etc. is to use piece of fruit (singular) or pieces of fruit(plural). This convention does not distinguish between, for example, a whole apple and a slice of an apple. Both are pieces of fruit. Rather, a piece of fruit is normally at most one serving. So, while it's perfectly fine to refer to, for example, Pears as pieces of fruit (since it would not be unusual for a person to eat a whole pear at a single sitting), it would be most unusual to refer to pineapples as pieces of fruit (since it would be rare for a person to eat a whole pineapple at a single sitting); slices of pineapple would be pieces of fruit. In most cases, when referring to whole large fruits, one must fall back on using either the specific names of the kinds of fruit (pineapple(s), watermelon(s), etc.) or the singular, mass forms of fruit. This is true both when referring only to large fruits and also when referring collectively to both large and small fruits. Thus, either a bowl containing pieces of fruit or a bowl of fruit could refer to a bowl containing any of (1) whole pears and whole apples, (2) orange segments and grapefruit segments, or (3) whole strawberries and slices of kiwi. But a bowl containing a pineapple and some bananas would be a bowl containing some pieces of fruit and a pineapple, or, more likely when there are only two kinds of fruit, a bowl containing a pineapple and some bananas, or, again, simply a bowl of fruit.

As is usual with mass nouns, the plural forms of fruitrefer to two or more kinds of fruit: apples and bananas are fruits. The singular form can also do so, referring to one kind of fruit: although apples are a very popular fruit in the U.S., bananas are far the most popular fruit. Thus, one would never speak of "the fruits of a banana plant" unless the plant produced more than one kind of fruit, say bananas and apples--which would be an odd banana plant, indeed. The phrase large fruitmight include grapes, if they were large compared with grapes generally, but the phrase large fruits could not include grapes because grapes are not among the large kinds of fruit. That is, grapes might be among the large fruit but are not among the large fruits. In practice, the count forms of fruit (that is, the plural forms and the singular forms specified with a/an) are much less often used than the mass forms. Some other examples of count fruit appear in the preceding paragraph of this answer. Note that where kinds of fruit appears, it could be replaced with fruits, and vice versa, without any change in meaning.

Answer 2

The plural fruit mango is called mangoes.

Answer 3

"Fruits" is plural. "Fruit" is singular.

Answer 4

fruity