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| Autor: | PPAULO |
| E-mail: | não-disponível |
| Data: | 25/SET/2010 10:57 AM |
| Assunto: | Fruit or fruits |
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Well done, teacher. You were more trigger-happy than I was, hehe.
Yeah, fruits there was to emphasize "variety", say, the guy wasn´t talking about it in general but, about the various types of fruits. Let´s imagine that one is thinking about bread fruit, star fruit, Surinam cherry, mango, cashew nut; then he is thinking about fruits. Whereas in "general" he would thing about fruit as in "tree or plants produce fruit" (traduzido produz "frutas").
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English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
Fruit or fruits – Breno N. 25/SET/2010, 10:07 AM Fruit or fruits – Teacher 25/SET/2010, 10:42 AM 
Fruit or fruits – PPAULO 25/SET/2010, 10:57 AM Trigger happy – Dale-USA 
25/SET/2010, 2:00 PM Trigger happy – PPAULO 25/SET/2010, 7:37 PM