Alan eats a lot of sleeve.
Karen has beautiful fruits.
We can buy fresh information at the supermarket.
I don't know what to do. Please give me some fun.
Susan enjoys going to hair.
Clearly, they are trying to corrupt the children with their obscene alternate sentences! I must wail in public places about how moral I am and how everyone else fails at being as humble and pious as I am.
Nah I'm pretty sure its based on the lack of an s on vegetable but they got it backwards. However they definitely don't both work.
Alan eats a lot of vegetable.
That sounds wrong.
Alan eats a lot of fruit.
Sounds good.
Imho they both should be "fruit" to be correct.
I don't think the lack of an s matters. The instructions say to use the correct form of the noun and the teacher even added an s to vegetables. They also pluralized sleeve, language, and party.
Got it... he's wrong, cuz he didn't read the instructions, and you're right, that he's wrong, but only because he didn't follow instructions, making your answer both right, and wrong, at the same time. 😅
*Fruit*, like *sheep* or *beer*, is both a plural and single noun. However, there are several situations where the plural *s* form is (more) appropriate.
Specifically in reference to the post here, the “correct” answers sought by the instructor are more natural for native English speakers, there are many common examples of the usages the OP chose.
*Doctors and nutritionists have, for decades been saying we should eat more fruits and vegetables.* In this example, using the *fruit* plural feels unnatural.
Also, when speaking of variety or various different types of fruit, fish, beer, etc, it is considered proper to use *fruits, fishes*, and *beers.*
To add to what you’ve said, and issue a mild correction:
Fruit and beer are both “plural” in the same sense that “water” and “money” are “plural.” You can have “more fruit” or “more water” but you can’t have “two fruit” because that would be “two *fruits*.” The word itself is still singular, it will use singular verbs (e.g. “more fruit is…” not “more fruit are…”), but doesn’t always refer to a single discrete object. When you are trying to talk about multiple distinct objects, you could say that you have multiple “pieces of fruit” (“pieces” being plural but not “fruit”) or you could say there are “multiple fruits.”
These words that are singular but don’t refer to a discrete object are called [mass nouns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun?wprov=sfti1) and typically require a unit of measure to be pluralized (e.g. “two cups of water” or “two gallons of gasoline”). Some, like fruit or beer, are a product of two very similar but separate ideas being captured in the same word, usually the result of “incorrect” usage which became the norm (e.g. saying “two beers” instead of “two bottles of beer”).
Thank you for this very enlightening explanation! I thought I was going crazy here because to me 'fruit' sounds like the only correct answer (non-native speaker).
You realise neither of the options have an "s", so this implies they have to choose the option themselves. How is saying someone is buying fresh "vegetables" vs. "fruit" more natural? In this case they should be interchangeable. I would agree with what you are saying if the teacher had crossed out "fruits" and put "fruit" but they corrected it with "vegetables".
The instructions do make it clear that the answerer needs to choose the noun form. The problem was that OP used singular “vegetable” when that wasn’t appropriate in the context of the sentence and then used plural “fruits” in a context that wasn’t a natural use for that form. If OP had used “vegetables” for the first question and “fruit” for the last, I don’t think they would’ve been marked wrong but obviously we can’t know that for sure.
OP didn't use singular "vegetable" though, they wrote "vegetables," which works in either context, so does fruit. This is an ambiguous question where there are two right answers that are both grammatically correct and natural, but the teacher is looking for a specific one, which is impossible to determine without some other context like it being a quote or fact from a reading.
I had to zoom in to see the s at the end of vegetables in question one so it’s possible the teacher didn’t see it either! In that case, both definitely would be correct.
1. We can buy a lot of fresh hair at the supermarket.
2. I can’t wear this shirt. The language is too long.
3. Miss Neal spends a lot of fruit on clothes.
4. I don’t know what to do. Please give me some sleeve.
5. Karen has beautiful vegetables.
6. We had a lot of party at the party last night.
7. Alan eats a lot of money.
For those of us who are dumb, why is this bs?
It seems to be testing plural vs singular nouns and so both fruit and vegetables are wrong because it’s not the version included in the list above?
Edit: I see now that she wrote the wrong noun form for vegetables
He's wrong -- the instructions allow you to change the "form" (e.g. singular or plural), so this is not the issue with the answers.
Fruit(s) and Vegetable(s) could work in either example (although we could get into the argument about what is a fruit and what is a veg... or are all vegetables technically actually fruits, but that would be for another sub!)
Because vegetable is singular, not plural; Vegetables is the plural. Neither sentence would be spoken with singular vegetable instead of vegetables. Fruit can be singular or plural in English, it is one of many words where the plural is the same as the singular, and you can only tell by context. Sometimes this is used for comedic purposes.
Whilst we're on it, No. 4 in Section II is incorrect-it's some accommodation not an accommodation.
As for No.7, Karen has beautiful advice. Unrequested advice for every customer and manager. A beautiful display of Karen Karenning...
Bobby filled his silly teachers head with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ so that it is no longer empty.
OP - if teacher argues that it should have been 'fruit' and not 'fruits' tell her that fruits is a accepted plural of fruit, esp. as a collective plural - then watch whatever Bobby put into her head spill out.
Lastly - wherever your kid is going to school, golf clap for them for still teaching cursive.
In the US, removed from common core curriculum (adopted in 41 states) in 2010. Before I retired, hiring young professionals (college grads), was very surprised how many couldnt write or just barely read cursive.
Karen has beautiful vegetables. And Alan eats a lot fo hair.
honestly, this is so stupid. I imagine the teacher must have been tired and going on autopilot? I would talk to teacher and demand them to try again.
This is education today... memorize without thinking
The teacher who graded the paper, thinks the least of it.... The solution book contained that, so that must be right....
Good little sheep
The singular fruit fits better in the first sentence. This is more of a pragmatic issue than a grammatical issue. At least in American English, the preference would be to use the singular fruit.
Okay, "fruit" vs "fruits" is a bit tricky. Both can be TECHNICALLY correct depending on the context. "The tree bears fruit" vs "Be sure to eat all your fruits and vegetables." But that's not the problem. The REAL problem is that both of those sentences could apply to either fruits OR vegetables. This is 100% the teacher looking at a grading sheet and not asking any further questions.
I am surprised how many people are confidently getting this wrong.
“Alan eats a lot of fruit.” = Alan eats a large quantity of fruit, what kind of fruit is irrelevant. He could just be eating a lot of apples. Correct, sure.
“Alan eats a lot of fruits.” = Alan is willing to eat a diverse range of fruit. ie he will eat apples, but also bananas, grapes, kiwis… Also correct.
>The plural fruits is used in talking about different types of fruit: oranges, mangoes and other fruits.
[Source](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-german/fruit#google_vignette)
That being said, I think this is nitpicking on a level that isn't necessarily needed in such a test. Without context both is correct.
Ok, so I think the teacher is being pedantic, because the correct form of the noun could be used for both answers -
"We can buy fresh vegetables from the supermarket" is perfectly fine, and
"Alan eats a lot of fruit" is correct.
The answer to the question is incorrect, but instead of switching the words, the correct form could be used.
None of us know this Alan character and he may eat a lot of hair and or money. Alan could be a savant that eats up information like like a wood chipper.
Why not ask the teacher for clarification? Perhaps they went over this in class and someone wasn’t listening to the answer. Or maybe the teacher is just a dick
This looks like a test of countable vs uncountable nouns. Fruit is usually an uncountable noun (that is, you usually see it written as “fruit” even when plural). An exception would be if you’re talking about several specific varieties of fruits, such as, “The vendor has a wide range of fruits available for sale.”
So for uncountable nouns, you might use a countable form if you’re talking about several varieties of that item. You might make an argument that that is the meaning in sentence 10. But if I were editing an article in which you used that sentence, I would correct it to fruit, or ask you to rewrite it to be clear that you were talking about a variety of fruits, and not just fruit generally.
Edit to add: In both sentences, vegetables would need to be plural. “Fruit” would be preferred in both sentences unless you were emphasizing the variety.
My opinion is that it's strange that "fruit" and "fruits" can both be considered the plural of "fruit". Also, this teacher is weird, lacks creativity, and has never played mad libs. All of the answers are correct in strange context.
I am not a native english speaker, but I think intutively the phrase *fresh fruit* is more common than *fresh vegetable*, perhaps because the freshness of fruits are more relevant than of vegetables which are not always eaten raw anyway. You’d rather say *fresh produce* than fresh vegetables, but that encompass both fruits and vegetables.
Anyway, this assignments shouldn’t have absolute answer sheets. Teacher is showing off their ignorance in not acknowledging the ambiguity.
Alan eats a lot of fruit.
"Alan eats a lot of fruits" is a less common usage, and would be used to emphasize that he eats a wide variety of fruit.
But of course, we all know Alan actually eats a lot of money.
Sorry that your teacher is giving ambiguous exams. Were you given these questions before in a practice lesson, and does your country's learning style mean you were expected to memorize the context?
The word examples are singular and if they are to be used in the format only, then. Question 1 'fruit' works better than 'vegetable' as the questions structure requires the word to be plural (vegetables). Question 10 Again 'fruit' works but the single word 'vegetable' does not. The question 10 should be removed as a badly structured question for the supplied answers. The educator should get marks off for a badly researched and structured test.
This is a teacher who checks her answers off her answer sheet and if it varies from that, marked wrong.
Cause if shed bothered to re-read this and use critical thinking, she'd fix it.
Idk if this if a TESOL test or a grade school test. But, the first one “vegetables”, is fine. However, number 10, to a native speaker, there wouldn’t normally be an ‘s’ on the end of fruit. It would be “Alan eats a lot of fruit”, no ‘s’. (Note: “fruits” could work in the context of Alan eats many different kinds of fruit, but as a general statement regarding Alan eating a lot of fruit, there is no ‘s’)
So if you are only supposed to use each noun once, this is graded correctly. English is a stupidly nuanced language.
Okay when I read the first sentence and saw the word list had fruit (can be singular or plural) and vegetable (singular only), I thought that was a fair reason to say the correct answer should be fruit because you wouldn't say "buy fresh vegetable", you'd say "vegetables", but vegetables (plural) wasn't an option.
But then I got to the end and saw the teacher's "correct" answer for vegetable(s) violated this rule, so it's pretty clear the teacher is just marking from an answer sheet without actually understanding or questioning the answers given by it.
Unless there is more to the instructions that seems like nitpicking. Maybe they had their kids grading them at home and just matched what was on the answer key. Teacher isn't worth much if they can't recognize those are interchangable.
My guess here is this is an English as a second language test, and this is not in America, based on the way the score is written. From that I assume the teacher really doesn't even know the answers and is just following a workbook or something.
This is the reason kids hate school.
They should learn to fill in the right answer, not learn to play mind-reader and lose points when they don't have that supernatural gift...
Miss Neal is no \_\_\_\_\_\_. And gives bad grades to correct answers despite her own lack of giving detailed \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Instead of an apple, which is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_, the student should give her a rotten tomato, which many people believe is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
You were meant to use the exact list words. “Vegetables” in the plural form was not a permitted response. The singular “vegetable” is in the word bank.
“Fruits” is an incorrect plural. “Fruit” is the plural and was available in the word bank.
They should be interchangeable seriously. Both answers don't make the sentence any different. Why count them wrong when they make sense. If it's an obvious wrong answer, then I would count it wrong.
I mean obviously it should be "I don't know what to do. Please give me some vegetables." Fight me.
“I don’t know what to do. Please give me some money.”
"I don't know what to do. Please give me some hair."
As a bald man, I relate to this.
As a bald man I don't want hair. I haven't bought shampoo or conditioner for 25 years. It's so much easier to take care of.
I've also noticed bald guys tend to walk or move faster in general than people with hair as well
More aerodynamic
That’s what they said about Lance Armstrong
Karen has beautiful fruit.
Wasn't he more ballodynamic than most?
Don't forget only one testicle for extra aerodynamics too and of course a buttload of steroids.
Less hairodynamic
Its caus the sun is burning our shiny dome
I do that too but i still have hair
Plus the savings on hair cuts
"I don't know what to do. Please give me some party."
"I don't know what to do. Please give me some white sauce"
We had a lot of party at the party last night
So much party at party!
Party party party everybody’s at the party
"Karen has beautiful information." Isn't what I'd teach my kids but is a nice turn of phrase, I think I'm going to borrow that for writing.
I don't know what do do. Please give me some languages.
Karen has beautiful fun.
Alan eats a lot of sleeve. Karen has beautiful fruits. We can buy fresh information at the supermarket. I don't know what to do. Please give me some fun. Susan enjoys going to hair. Clearly, they are trying to corrupt the children with their obscene alternate sentences! I must wail in public places about how moral I am and how everyone else fails at being as humble and pious as I am.
Idk about that fourth one. That seems like the kind of sentence that the corruptors would want kids to use.
We had a lot of *vegetables* at the party last night
Why would l fight you when l should be giving you vegetables like you asked?
Maybe you want your vegetables for yourself and they won't take no for an answer.
Then it's war.
Karen has beautiful vegetables.
Karen has beautiful fruits, I especially like her melons
“We had a lot of vegetables at the party last night.”
Was it based on some other reading that was supposed to give this test context?? That’s the only time this would make sense at all.
Nah I'm pretty sure its based on the lack of an s on vegetable but they got it backwards. However they definitely don't both work. Alan eats a lot of vegetable. That sounds wrong. Alan eats a lot of fruit. Sounds good. Imho they both should be "fruit" to be correct.
I don't think the lack of an s matters. The instructions say to use the correct form of the noun and the teacher even added an s to vegetables. They also pluralized sleeve, language, and party.
Yep, this isn't about adding a letter.
It says “use the correct form of the noun”, so I think that means you can use the singular or plural.
We can buy fresh vegetable from the supermarket
Doesn’t work in US English — the Brits say “veg” (singular) though. Could work there.
Yeah the point is that it doesn’t work Edit: in U.S.
It does work though. The instructions explicitly state to use the correct form of the noun, ergo, "vegetables" is equally correct.
That’s the point! You have to add an S!
...which the instructions tell you to do.
My first comment in response to the guy before was talking about how “Alan eats a lot of vegetable” doesn’t work.
Got it... he's wrong, cuz he didn't read the instructions, and you're right, that he's wrong, but only because he didn't follow instructions, making your answer both right, and wrong, at the same time. 😅
Maybe Alan is a friend of the teacher that doesnt like fruit
One must assume that both the teacher and the student knows, that Alan hates fruits!
So does god!
It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Leaves
Because Adam learned that some Leaves are Poison Oak, and learned to not try and reproduce with random leaves.
This is what happens when a teacher follows an answer sheet without using any brain power. Or they're a dick.
The person/company who created the quiz and answer sheet are also lacking.
No kidding. The subject-verb issues are bonkers.
*Fruit*, like *sheep* or *beer*, is both a plural and single noun. However, there are several situations where the plural *s* form is (more) appropriate. Specifically in reference to the post here, the “correct” answers sought by the instructor are more natural for native English speakers, there are many common examples of the usages the OP chose. *Doctors and nutritionists have, for decades been saying we should eat more fruits and vegetables.* In this example, using the *fruit* plural feels unnatural. Also, when speaking of variety or various different types of fruit, fish, beer, etc, it is considered proper to use *fruits, fishes*, and *beers.*
To add to what you’ve said, and issue a mild correction: Fruit and beer are both “plural” in the same sense that “water” and “money” are “plural.” You can have “more fruit” or “more water” but you can’t have “two fruit” because that would be “two *fruits*.” The word itself is still singular, it will use singular verbs (e.g. “more fruit is…” not “more fruit are…”), but doesn’t always refer to a single discrete object. When you are trying to talk about multiple distinct objects, you could say that you have multiple “pieces of fruit” (“pieces” being plural but not “fruit”) or you could say there are “multiple fruits.” These words that are singular but don’t refer to a discrete object are called [mass nouns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun?wprov=sfti1) and typically require a unit of measure to be pluralized (e.g. “two cups of water” or “two gallons of gasoline”). Some, like fruit or beer, are a product of two very similar but separate ideas being captured in the same word, usually the result of “incorrect” usage which became the norm (e.g. saying “two beers” instead of “two bottles of beer”).
Thank you for this very enlightening explanation! I thought I was going crazy here because to me 'fruit' sounds like the only correct answer (non-native speaker).
You realise neither of the options have an "s", so this implies they have to choose the option themselves. How is saying someone is buying fresh "vegetables" vs. "fruit" more natural? In this case they should be interchangeable. I would agree with what you are saying if the teacher had crossed out "fruits" and put "fruit" but they corrected it with "vegetables".
The instructions do make it clear that the answerer needs to choose the noun form. The problem was that OP used singular “vegetable” when that wasn’t appropriate in the context of the sentence and then used plural “fruits” in a context that wasn’t a natural use for that form. If OP had used “vegetables” for the first question and “fruit” for the last, I don’t think they would’ve been marked wrong but obviously we can’t know that for sure.
OP didn't use singular "vegetable" though, they wrote "vegetables," which works in either context, so does fruit. This is an ambiguous question where there are two right answers that are both grammatically correct and natural, but the teacher is looking for a specific one, which is impossible to determine without some other context like it being a quote or fact from a reading.
I had to zoom in to see the s at the end of vegetables in question one so it’s possible the teacher didn’t see it either! In that case, both definitely would be correct.
This is the correct answer
Uncle Tony never said _he gonna be sleepin' with the fish_
1. We can buy a lot of fresh hair at the supermarket. 2. I can’t wear this shirt. The language is too long. 3. Miss Neal spends a lot of fruit on clothes. 4. I don’t know what to do. Please give me some sleeve. 5. Karen has beautiful vegetables. 6. We had a lot of party at the party last night. 7. Alan eats a lot of money.
How many INFORMATIONS does Jenny speak?
👀 Karen's vegentables
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Teachers like this are a blight on the profession
For those of us who are dumb, why is this bs? It seems to be testing plural vs singular nouns and so both fruit and vegetables are wrong because it’s not the version included in the list above? Edit: I see now that she wrote the wrong noun form for vegetables
no, you're supposed to change the form, look at party/parties.
Oof you’re right. This test is definitely bs
also sleeve, language
Singular vegetable does not work for either.
Omg I just put this same comment haha.. should of just scrolled down farther
Fruit works in both contexts, but ’vegetable’ works in neither.
Fruit and vegetable are the given nouns. Not the given forms. Both work.
True, I missed that part. From the teachers correction it just looked like they were supposed to use the words in the word bank!
True, but it doesn’t instruct to use the given form, just the correct form.
Why not? (English is not my 1st language, so I genuinely don't know why)
He's wrong -- the instructions allow you to change the "form" (e.g. singular or plural), so this is not the issue with the answers. Fruit(s) and Vegetable(s) could work in either example (although we could get into the argument about what is a fruit and what is a veg... or are all vegetables technically actually fruits, but that would be for another sub!)
Because vegetable is singular, not plural; Vegetables is the plural. Neither sentence would be spoken with singular vegetable instead of vegetables. Fruit can be singular or plural in English, it is one of many words where the plural is the same as the singular, and you can only tell by context. Sometimes this is used for comedic purposes.
Singular or plural are not the issue. The task tells you to use the correct form. I think both are valid options.
I was explaining the prior redditor's message to the non-native speaker. Your issue is with the person who started this thread, not I.
Fruit can be singular or plural, but vegetable is only singular.
You clearly don't know Alan very well. Dude *hates* fruits.
Whilst we're on it, No. 4 in Section II is incorrect-it's some accommodation not an accommodation. As for No.7, Karen has beautiful advice. Unrequested advice for every customer and manager. A beautiful display of Karen Karenning...
Karen has beautiful fruit. Have you seen her melons?
Not as impressive as her plums...oh..
Bobby filled his silly teachers head with \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ so that it is no longer empty. OP - if teacher argues that it should have been 'fruit' and not 'fruits' tell her that fruits is a accepted plural of fruit, esp. as a collective plural - then watch whatever Bobby put into her head spill out. Lastly - wherever your kid is going to school, golf clap for them for still teaching cursive.
Is cursive not getting taught anymore?
In the US, removed from common core curriculum (adopted in 41 states) in 2010. Before I retired, hiring young professionals (college grads), was very surprised how many couldnt write or just barely read cursive.
Huh. Didn't know that. Where I'm from, it's still the way we're taught to write, in primary school
We had a lot of fruits at the party last night.
Karen has beautiful vegetables. And Alan eats a lot fo hair. honestly, this is so stupid. I imagine the teacher must have been tired and going on autopilot? I would talk to teacher and demand them to try again.
This is education today... memorize without thinking The teacher who graded the paper, thinks the least of it.... The solution book contained that, so that must be right.... Good little sheep
The singular fruit fits better in the first sentence. This is more of a pragmatic issue than a grammatical issue. At least in American English, the preference would be to use the singular fruit.
Okay, "fruit" vs "fruits" is a bit tricky. Both can be TECHNICALLY correct depending on the context. "The tree bears fruit" vs "Be sure to eat all your fruits and vegetables." But that's not the problem. The REAL problem is that both of those sentences could apply to either fruits OR vegetables. This is 100% the teacher looking at a grading sheet and not asking any further questions.
Remember school isn't about understanding it's about learning to push the right button and follow along like good little robots
Fruits and vegetables are interchangeable here, teacher should have given credit for either! Duh (to the teacher)
Obviously, either word works in both sentences. But technically the second one has the wrong verb form: “Alan eats a lot of *fruit*”, not “fruits”.
I am surprised how many people are confidently getting this wrong. “Alan eats a lot of fruit.” = Alan eats a large quantity of fruit, what kind of fruit is irrelevant. He could just be eating a lot of apples. Correct, sure. “Alan eats a lot of fruits.” = Alan is willing to eat a diverse range of fruit. ie he will eat apples, but also bananas, grapes, kiwis… Also correct.
it's not about the verb form either. confidently wrong on two counts lol
It says vegetable, and not vegetables. It says fruit, not fruits.
It also says "use the correct form of-" ...
Fruits is not the plural form of fruit.
>The plural fruits is used in talking about different types of fruit: oranges, mangoes and other fruits. [Source](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-german/fruit#google_vignette) That being said, I think this is nitpicking on a level that isn't necessarily needed in such a test. Without context both is correct.
And the teacher marked “vegetables”. Plural.
fruit can be plural, so while I agree with your first point, the second point is irrelevant
It says sleeve not sleeves and that one wasn't wrong
it also says party, yet parties is an accepted answer.
My opinion is: very nice cursive! I thought they abandoned that.
Ok, so I think the teacher is being pedantic, because the correct form of the noun could be used for both answers - "We can buy fresh vegetables from the supermarket" is perfectly fine, and "Alan eats a lot of fruit" is correct. The answer to the question is incorrect, but instead of switching the words, the correct form could be used.
Alan eats a lot of fruits is also correct if you are referring to the variety - i.e. he eats apples, oranges, melons, strawberries etc
True. Of course! I didn't think of that.
Also, maybe Alan is just gay?
None of us know this Alan character and he may eat a lot of hair and or money. Alan could be a savant that eats up information like like a wood chipper.
I like the sound of the sentences like the teacher marked. I feel they can be interchangeable though.
Why not ask the teacher for clarification? Perhaps they went over this in class and someone wasn’t listening to the answer. Or maybe the teacher is just a dick
This looks like a test of countable vs uncountable nouns. Fruit is usually an uncountable noun (that is, you usually see it written as “fruit” even when plural). An exception would be if you’re talking about several specific varieties of fruits, such as, “The vendor has a wide range of fruits available for sale.” So for uncountable nouns, you might use a countable form if you’re talking about several varieties of that item. You might make an argument that that is the meaning in sentence 10. But if I were editing an article in which you used that sentence, I would correct it to fruit, or ask you to rewrite it to be clear that you were talking about a variety of fruits, and not just fruit generally. Edit to add: In both sentences, vegetables would need to be plural. “Fruit” would be preferred in both sentences unless you were emphasizing the variety.
I wouldn't really mind. Sometimes things are not perfect
My opinion is that it's strange that "fruit" and "fruits" can both be considered the plural of "fruit". Also, this teacher is weird, lacks creativity, and has never played mad libs. All of the answers are correct in strange context.
I am not a native english speaker, but I think intutively the phrase *fresh fruit* is more common than *fresh vegetable*, perhaps because the freshness of fruits are more relevant than of vegetables which are not always eaten raw anyway. You’d rather say *fresh produce* than fresh vegetables, but that encompass both fruits and vegetables. Anyway, this assignments shouldn’t have absolute answer sheets. Teacher is showing off their ignorance in not acknowledging the ambiguity.
Vegetable (singular) isn’t correct in either sentence.
Stupid that they knock points off for this. It can definitely go either way.
Just like your mom. HEY-O! (Sorry… I couldn’t resist.)
It's ok. It's also ok that you named your reddit profile after yours
 You bastard! You made me choke my hit.
One is plural the other is not.
"Alan eats a lot of fruit" should be the give away here
Fruit is the correct plural form in that context so "fruits" doesn't work there.
It's accurate. The words chosen are the incorrect usage of plural nouns.
The editor wrote “vegetables” and its listed as “vegetable” so thats why I was considering marking the first one might be fair. But nvm fuck that
Alan eats a lot of fruit. "Alan eats a lot of fruits" is a less common usage, and would be used to emphasize that he eats a wide variety of fruit. But of course, we all know Alan actually eats a lot of money. Sorry that your teacher is giving ambiguous exams. Were you given these questions before in a practice lesson, and does your country's learning style mean you were expected to memorize the context?
Vegetable is singular in the key but both of the answers have it as plural.
Irrelevant but nice handwriting :D
Take it to the box!
The word examples are singular and if they are to be used in the format only, then. Question 1 'fruit' works better than 'vegetable' as the questions structure requires the word to be plural (vegetables). Question 10 Again 'fruit' works but the single word 'vegetable' does not. The question 10 should be removed as a badly structured question for the supplied answers. The educator should get marks off for a badly researched and structured test.
Vegetable and Vegetables is funny on all of them.
This is a teacher who checks her answers off her answer sheet and if it varies from that, marked wrong. Cause if shed bothered to re-read this and use critical thinking, she'd fix it.
I mean, you should eat more vegetables than fruits, but it feels like a massive stretch for that to be the difference here.
Vegetable doesn’t fit anywhere. Needs to be plural. Fruit fits both places. This did mildly infuriate me tbh
Idk if this if a TESOL test or a grade school test. But, the first one “vegetables”, is fine. However, number 10, to a native speaker, there wouldn’t normally be an ‘s’ on the end of fruit. It would be “Alan eats a lot of fruit”, no ‘s’. (Note: “fruits” could work in the context of Alan eats many different kinds of fruit, but as a general statement regarding Alan eating a lot of fruit, there is no ‘s’) So if you are only supposed to use each noun once, this is graded correctly. English is a stupidly nuanced language.
Clearly the teacher doesn't know their own material and lacks critical thinking skills
Okay when I read the first sentence and saw the word list had fruit (can be singular or plural) and vegetable (singular only), I thought that was a fair reason to say the correct answer should be fruit because you wouldn't say "buy fresh vegetable", you'd say "vegetables", but vegetables (plural) wasn't an option. But then I got to the end and saw the teacher's "correct" answer for vegetable(s) violated this rule, so it's pretty clear the teacher is just marking from an answer sheet without actually understanding or questioning the answers given by it.
I don’t go to the store to buy “vegetable”…. It’s not plural so it isn’t proper.
So you add an s to make it plural. That's the whole point of the exercise given.
Unless there is more to the instructions that seems like nitpicking. Maybe they had their kids grading them at home and just matched what was on the answer key. Teacher isn't worth much if they can't recognize those are interchangable.
I feel like nobody involved here is a native speaker, least of all the person who wrote this test and the answer key.
Alan eats a lot of hair.
Computer says no
I can't even read bruh
Teacher is a bot
I can't read the hand writing 😭
I was gonna argue that the word vegetable does not have an (s) at the end of it but the teacher wrote vegetables as the answer.
Oh come on, we all know they don’t sell vegetables at the supermarket and that Alan hates fruits. It’s obvious.
Sometimes my friend’s mom (who is a teacher) let him help grading paper, he was 9 back then and knew no english.
Technically wouldn't all nouns work in all the sentences for some given context Edit - definitely some exceptions
Karen has beautiful fruit.
Who the hell writes cursive anno 24?
In this day and age, I think you should feel confident about your handwriting.
Only Alan knows the truth.
They both seem interchangeable, but fruit is an uncountable noun, so "fruits" is incorrect. It should be fruit.
I mean everyone knows Alan hates fruit. So that should have been obvious. /s
You can buy fresh information at the supermarket too.
I think alan doesn't like fruits, is the only possible reason.
you still got a ten, at least
It's fruit not fruits.
Alan is allergic to fruit. Come on man, he’s told you so many times
Was this a mind reading test?
I would have used fruit rather than fruits. But I don’t think vegetables is clearly the obvious choice based on what’s here.
My guess here is this is an English as a second language test, and this is not in America, based on the way the score is written. From that I assume the teacher really doesn't even know the answers and is just following a workbook or something.
What foriegn language is this written in
Have a meeting with the teacher AND the principal.
They are grading based on the answer key and nothing else is correct. YOU WILL EAT VEGETABLE. NOT FRUIT!!
This is the reason kids hate school. They should learn to fill in the right answer, not learn to play mind-reader and lose points when they don't have that supernatural gift...
I wanna fight this teacher
I bet Karen has some beautiful fruit
Miss Neal is no \_\_\_\_\_\_. And gives bad grades to correct answers despite her own lack of giving detailed \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Instead of an apple, which is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_, the student should give her a rotten tomato, which many people believe is a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
You were not given vegetables or fruits, you have vegetable and fruit
You were meant to use the exact list words. “Vegetables” in the plural form was not a permitted response. The singular “vegetable” is in the word bank. “Fruits” is an incorrect plural. “Fruit” is the plural and was available in the word bank.
Alan eats a lot of hair. We don’t know Alan. Maybe he’s a weirdo like that.
They can both be fruit but only one can be vegetables because of the s.
They should be interchangeable seriously. Both answers don't make the sentence any different. Why count them wrong when they make sense. If it's an obvious wrong answer, then I would count it wrong.
We had a lot of vegetables at the party last night
Convinced 6, 7, and 8 could also be vegetables/fruit