What does grapefruit mean?
Word: Grapefruit
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Grapefruit means a large round citrus with pale yellow skin, juicy flesh and a sharp, slightly bitter taste.
How do you spell grapefruit?
Syllables: grape - fruit
Tricky part: Students drop the silent e in the middle and write grapfruit, because no one says it aloud.
Watch out for: grapfruit, grappefruit
Memory tip: That quiet e in the middle is like a person who sits at the table and never speaks. Do not leave them out.
Grapefruit in a sentence
Example 1: My uncle eats half a grapefruit with his breakfast every day.
Example 2: Mum squeezed a grapefruit and poured the juice into two glasses.
Example 3: The grapefruit in the bowl looked like a very large pale orange.
Fun Fact
The grapefruit is thought to be a natural cross between the pomelo and the sweet orange, first noted on the island of Barbados in the 18th century.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tfiuegrrap
a) grapefruit
b) greenhouse
c) gratefully
d) grassland
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a) grapefruit. Two of the wrong options need an l and the third an h, and the jumble has neither.
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) pinaple
b) watermellon
c) strawbery
d) grapefruit
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d) grapefruit. Strawberry has a double r in its second half, watermelon one l, and pineapple keeps an e and a double p.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
grapefreuit
a) e
b) u
c) i
d) r
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a) e. Take out the e after the second r and you are left with the right spelling.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) avacado
b) apricot
c) pomegranate
d) grapefruit
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a) avacado. The word is avocado, with an o after the v.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In which group does a grapefruit belong?
a) lemons, limes and oranges
b) melons, gourds and pumpkins
c) mangoes, plums and peaches
d) apples, pears and quinces
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a) lemons, limes and oranges
2. Why might someone add honey to a grapefruit at breakfast?
a) to help it ripen sooner
b) to cool it down quickly
c) to keep its skin yellow
d) to soften its strong tang
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d) to soften its strong tang
