freediver wrote on Oct 7
th, 2023 at 10:18am:
Quote:It's wrong, in grammar and logic.
What is the grammatical error?
"Fruit are a type of apple".
In my opinion***, ...should read: 'fruit (singular of 'fruits' )
IS (a type of apple)'; or, alternatively, fruits (plural of 'fruit')
ARE (a type of apple). .
But in any case, both statements are wrong
in logic.....are you prepared to acknowledge that fact now? (...cough...)
Or will you persist with the idiocy of 'people are a type of Australian'.
*** re my opinion on the grammar (quick google):
The word Fruit is a noun. The word is an exception where the noun is both countable and uncountable. So the plural of Fruit can be either Fruit OR Fruits. When we think of Fruit as a group collectively and in a non-specific way, then we tend to use the word Fruit.OK..so we
"tend" to use the world "fruit"...not 'fruits"....as I posited, so presumably "fruit are a type of apple" is gramatically correct, though it sounds wrong to my ears. (But "in a non-specific way" bolsters my argument: your statement refers to a
type of apple).
Nevertheless, your statement IS
wrong in logic, as shown above.