a grape / grapes

[Mnemon]

English Vocabulary in Use book

Hi.
Would it be wrong to refer to the picture shown above "a grape" rather than "grapes"?

 

[jutfrank]

Yes, it would.

You could call it 'a bunch of grapes', though.

 

[emsr2d2]

You could say "a grape" only if this was the picture:

 

[Mnemon]

Does it work for you if say,

Give me a grapes.

When I mean a bunch of grapes.

 

[5jj]

No.

 

[probus]

I can only think of one occurrence of the noun grape in the singular. It was uttered by Mae West in a 1930s film. She said "Beulah, peel me a grape." It has lived on as a sarcastic retort when somebody asks you to do something trivial.