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Chiachen Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

The number of units for each grocery item

A bunch of fruits, a carton of eggs, (two bags of) peas, four couliflowers, some lettuce, these are things we can find in a bag of groceries. Any mistakes.
  

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Cauliflowers is misspelled. Also, it may be preferable to use a semicolon or an em dash to distinguish the clause from the list. A bunch of fruits, a carton of eggs, (two bags of) peas, four cauliflowers, some lettuce ; these are things we can find in a bag of groceries.

— RandomGuy

  • Cauliflowers is misspelled.
  • Also, it may be preferable to use a semicolon or an em dash to distinguish the clause from the list.
  • A bunch of fruits, a carton of eggs, (two bags of) peas, four cauliflowers, some lettuce ; these are things we can find in a bag of groceries.
  • or A bunch of fruits, a carton of eggs, (two bags of) peas, four cauliflowers, some lettuce — these are things we can find in a bag of groceries.
  • Even better, you could move the clause to the beginning and use a colon to introduce the list.
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Cauliflowers is misspelled. Also, it may be preferable to use a semicolon or an em dash to distinguish the clause from the list.

A bunch of fruits, a carton of eggs, (two bags of) peas, four cauliflowers, some lettuce; these are things we can find in a bag of groceries.

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A bunch of fruits, a carton
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Thanks. It's equally good : These are the items that an be found in my shopping basket. or it's better not with a new sentence.
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Hi,

A bunch of fruits The natural word here is fruit, not fruits.

But really we seldom speak of 'a bunch of fruit'.
It's more natural to specify the name of the fruit. The only kind I hear 'a bunch' used for is 'a bunc
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In the exercise for the number of units for each grocery item, one example given is some vegetables. I just realize the list can have a carton of milk, a jug of milk, but would have a bunch of bananas and some fruit, or two bags of peas and some vegetables on it. Can it be just peas?
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I overlooked, missed half of your answer, didn't even finished the entire post. Sorry.
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Hi,

We do sometimes say 'a bunch of grapes' Or just 'some grapes'.

Clive
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I shouldn't put on the list: a bunch of grapes, two pineapples, some fruit(s), peas, some lettuce and some vegetables. If I includes a bunch of grapes on it, then logically I would not add on it some fruit. Yes?
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Why does the little face show up on the word fruit?
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chiachenWhy does the little face show up on the word fruit?
The code for the sleeping emoticon is (?).
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You mean it insists on a missing (s), but shouldn't it be perfectly fine without the (s)?
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