Is "Apple is my favorite fruit" grammatically correct?

[sitifan]

Mango is my favorite fruit. Give me one of your mangoes.
Source: Nesfield's English Grammar Series, page 30.
https://ell.stackexchange.com/quest...grammatically-correct-should-it-instead-be-ma
Is "Apple is my favorite fruit" grammatically correct?

 

[Tarheel]

It's OK. How did it come up in conversation?

 

[sitifan]

How did it come up in conversation?

I don't know what your question means.

 

[emsr2d2]

Don't worry, @sitifan. Your source information makes it very clear that the sentence didn't come up in conversation for you and was, in fact, taken from a text book.

 

[Tarheel]

I don't know what your question means.

In real life there is always context. People don't just say things out of the blue. There is always context.

Yes, the question came from a textbook, but do we really learn language from textbooks?

 

[emsr2d2]

In real life there is always context. People don't just say things out of the blue. There is always context.

Yes, the question came from a textbook, but do we really learn language from textbooks?

I would say the vast majority of learners (especially young learners) in other countries learn most of their English from a textbook or from a teacher who is working from a textbook.

 

[Piscean]

I would say the vast majority of learners (especially young learners) in other countries learn most of their English from a textbook or from a teacher who is working from a textbook.

Times have changed a little, thank heavens, but, as a learner of French many years ago, I encountered my first non-textbook experience of French in my second year as an undergraduate.

 

[kadioguy]

I would say the vast majority of learners (especially young learners) in other countries learn most of their English from a textbook or from a teacher who is working from a textbook.

Times have changed a little, thank heavens, but, as a learner of French many years ago, I encountered my first non-textbook experience of French in my second year as an undergraduate.

I am not sure, but Piscean's reply seems a little strange to me. Piscean seemed to be responding to a post like "I would say the vast majority of learners (especially young learners) in other countries learn most of their English from the real world."

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[emsr2d2]

I am not sure, but Piscean's reply seems a little strange to me. Piscean seemed to be responding to a post like "I would say the vast majority of learners (especially young learners) in other countries learn most of their English from the real world."

Piscean wasn't responding to me. He was responding to Tarheel. Piscean and I said much the same thing - most language learning is done from a textbook. In his case, the first time he encountered "real-world" French was in the second year of his degree (that would be around the age of 19/20).