the fruit

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the fruit

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a. They ate the fruit that was on the tree.
b. They ate fruit from the tree.
c. They ate the tree's fruit.


d. They ate fruit that was on the tree.
e. They ate fruit from the tree.
f. They ate some of the tree's fruit.

Are all of the sentences grammatically correct?
Do the first three imply that they ate all of the fruit on that tree?

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Re: the fruit

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All are grammatical.
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