Re: The word, "information"

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How is it that the word "information" can be singular or plural in  context, but always takes the singular verb "is"? Also, why is its  plural  not  "informations"?

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

Can you give an example of when you've seen "information" as a plural?

Milky · Answer

AnonymousHow is it that the word "information" can be singular or plural in context, but always takes the singular verb "is"? Also, why is its plural not "informations"?

"Information" is seen as an entity or whole (undivided and uncountable), therefore singular. It doesn't have a plural form because it doesn't. It's that simple.

Paco2004 · Answer

You can get many informations in France or in Spain, but you can get only information in Britain and in the United States. Why? I don't know.

paco

Milky · Answer

AnonymousHow is it that the word "information" can be singular or plural in context, but always takes the singular verb "is"? Also, why is its plural not "informations"?

See this page for info on uncountable nouns:

http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/countable.html

Gazapo · Answer

Paco2004You can get many informations in France or in Spain, but you can get only information in Britain and in the United States. Why? I don't know.

paco

As someone above stated, information is seen as a whole. Like a family consisting of four people, information can consist of 200 brochures, etc. You could make it more powerful by saying "much information" or, depending on formality, "a ton of information", meaning a lot. Just use "much" "little", etc. to state comparisons and such.

You can get a lot of information in France or in Spain, but you can get very little information in Britain and in the United States.

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