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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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information as uncountable

In a sense that 'information' means 'a person or agency answering questions as a service to others,' I'm trying to give you an example. Is it a happy example ? 'There are two 'information' at the front and the back.'
  

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Anonymous In a sense that 'information' means 'a person or agency answering questions as a service to others, "information" can hardly mean this, except as an abbrevation for "Information Desk" or something similar. For example "Go and ask at Information" could be an abbreviated way of saying "Go and ask at the Information Desk". ' No.

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  • Anonymous In a sense that 'information' means 'a person or agency answering questions as a service to others, "information" can hardly mean this, except as an abbrevation for "Information Desk" or something similar.
  • For example "Go and ask at Information" could be an abbreviated way of saying "Go and ask at the Information Desk".
  • ' No.
  • You can't have "two information" (or "two informations") in any sense of the word.
  • You could say, for example, "There are customer information staff at the front and back".
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AnonymousIn a sense that 'information' means 'a person or agency answering questions as a service to others,
"information" can hardly mean this, except as an abbrevation for "Information Desk" or something similar. For example "Go and ask at Information" could be an abbreviated way of saying "Go and ask at the Information Desk".
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GPY "Go and ask at the Information Desk".
Thank you for your help. Additionally, I want to inquire of you something. The following is extracted from The Random House Dictionary of The English Language. <information 4. an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public: The ticket seller said to ask information
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AnonymousThe following is extracted from The Random House Dictionary of The English Language.
Anonymousinformation 4. an office, station, service, or employee whose function is to provide information to the public: The ticket seller said to ask information for a timetable
Hmm, OK. I'm slightly surprised that they put it in
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AnonymousThere are two 'information' at the front and the back.
No. You can't do that. There's an information desk in the front (of the building) and another one in the back.

I don't recommend imitating that example you found in the dictionary. To my ear "to ask information" (in the relevant reading) tends toward being slang. I'd say "to as
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