006 Fruit vs. Fruits (031010)
Native Speaker Answers:

Yes, I can see where this is confusing. "Crab apple trees have fruit" is correct. Even though you may have many crab apples on the same tree.

It is kind of like the word fish. There can be one fish or several fish in a pond. If you were to say, "He ate many different fruits during the day". in this case it sounds better to use fruits. (But I think "He ate many different fruit during the day." is also correct)

So, I guess in summary, for fruit the plural of the word can be either fruit or fruits. But I think you would tend to want to use fruits more when you are talking about different kinds of fruit and not when you are talking about all of the same kind of fruit.

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