The phrase "a fruit and a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when listing items or making comparisons involving fruits or similar categories.
Example: "For the smoothie, I need a fruit and a vegetable to blend together."
Alternatives: "one fruit and one" or "a piece of fruit and a".
Along with a grain, a vegetable, a fruit and a protein, milk must be offered at every meal if a school district wants to get crucial reimbursement from the federal government.
It's like when you get biologists arguing with chefs about what the difference between a fruit and a vegetable REALLY is.Try offering your child "a piece of fruit", and then when he accepts, handing him a chili pepper.
How can I come up with a new take on them if I can't explain what each one is?" At a gathering with chefs and seed breeders in New York in September, he delighted in approaching the scientists and asking each to explain the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.
For a mirror to be a mirror, an apple just a fruit and a wood nothing more than a collection of trees now seems to require a convulsion of the imagination, especially in America, where the gothic has triumphed over all else.
It's a fruit and a vegetable.
Rather than grabbing for the cookie box to snack, choose a fruit and a piece of cheese.
Linda Hesh from Mount Rainier, Md., acknowledges her reliance on the machine in realizing three seamless portraits, "Jim as a Fruit," "Travis as a Fruit" and "Joe as a Fruit".
Latina has a beet-sugar refinery, a fruit and vegetable cannery, and glass factories.
A crash involving a fruit and vegetable lorry has closed the A1 in Lincolnshire.
I mean, what could be spicy about papaya (a fruit) and salad (a... salad), right?
A fruit and vegetable vendor on a side street in Pyongyang.
