Information, feedback, advice

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Dear Authors or Academic English professors,

English is my third language. I know grammar and some rules of writing. Now I live in Toronto and being confusion with cocktail English "AMERICO-BRITANO". information, feedback, advice are countable or uncountable noun. I meet these words in the form of countable in the paper or internet. Thank you in advance for your kind and correct reply. Have nice time.

Dr. BR Kharel
Toronto-Russia-Nepal

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

AnonymousDear Authors or Academic English professors, English is my third language. I know grammar and some rules of writing. Now I live in Toronto and I am being confused by cocktail English "AMERICO-BRITANO". Are these nouns - information, feedback, advice countable or uncountable? I meet these words in the form of countable in the paper or internet. Thank you in advance for your kind and correct reply. Have nice time.Dr. BR KharelToronto-Russia-Nepal

Hello Dr. Kharel;

The nouns information, feedback, and advice are all non-count nouns.

This means that we do not normally pluralize them.

He gave me a lot of advice. (not advices)
I got little useful information from the passerby, so I asked the policeman.
I received feedback from all of my friends. (not feedbacks)

CalifJim · Answer

Anonymousinformation, feedback, advice are countable or uncountable noun. ... countable in the paper or internet.

No matter what you see on the internet, these are uncountable. The following are all wrong: an information, a feedback, an advice, informations, feedbacks, advices.

Oof. I think I started to get sick to my stomach just writing those. They sound awful to native speakers!

Do not confuse this with cases where one of these nouns is used (in the singular) to modify another noun. Such usage is fine: an information source, a feedback loop, an advice column.

CJ

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