Stop saying: “I need more informations about the course.”

Say instead: “I need more information about the course.” · A2 · Grammar

✗ Wrong

I need more informations about the course.

✓ Correct

I need more information about the course.

Why?

Information is uncountable, so it never takes an s and never uses a or an. Say some information, a lot of information, or a piece of information. Its verb is singular: the information is correct, not are.

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🎙️ REAL VOICES

The three correct examples below, in a real voice.

✗ The website has many informations.

✓ The website has a lot of information.

✗ These informations are wrong.

✓ This information is wrong.

✗ She gave me an information about Austin.

✓ She gave me some information about Austin.

Information is one big mass — no s, no a, just information.

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