STOP SAYING 'INFORMATIONS' OR 'AN ADVICE

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❌ STOP SAYING 'INFORMATIONS' OR 'AN ADVICE' πŸ”₯

As a grammatical rule, English mass nouns such as information, advice, character, behaviour, trouble, furniture, gold, equipment, land, jewelry, damage, etc do not take the indefinite article 'a' or 'an' for singularity or 's' for plurality. You can only quantify them by the use of partitive expressions.

EXAMPLES:

1. INFORMATION
❌ I have an information for you.
βœ… I have a piece of information for you.
❌ I have some informations for you.
βœ… I have some information for you
βœ… She has one or two pieces of information for you.
βœ… That journalist has a lot of information.
βœ… There is a lot of information for you.

2.ADVICE
.❌ She gave me an advice.
βœ… She gave me a piece of advice.
❌ My father gave me some useful advices.
βœ… My father gave me some useful advice.
βœ… I have a word of advice for you.

3. CHARACTER /BEHAVIOUR
❌ Stop your bad characters.
βœ… Stop your bad character.
βœ… Stop your bad behaviour.

4. EVIDENCE
❌ I have an evidence against you.
βœ… I have a piece of evidence against you.
❌i have some evidences against you.
βœ… I have some evidence against you.

5. FURNITURE
❌ I have a lot of furnitures.
βœ… I have a lot of furniture.
❌ He just bought a new furniture.
βœ… He just bought a new piece of furniture.(or a new furniture item).

6. LAND
❌ I have bought a land.
βœ… I have bought a plot of land.
❌ He has many lands.
βœ… He has many plots of land.

7. EQUIPMENT
❌ They bought an expensive equipment for the project.
βœ… They bought an expensive piece of equipment for the project.
❌ We need more equipments.
βœ… We need more equipment.

8. GOSSIP
❌ There is a gossip about the woman.
βœ… There is a piece of gossip about the woman.
❌ Don't believe all the gossips you hear.
βœ… Don't believe all the gossip you hear.

10. JEWELRY
❌ Margaret has bought a jewelry.
βœ… Margaret has bought a piece of jewelry.
❌ We need some jewelries.
βœ… We need some jewelry.

11. AMMUNITION
❌ There are many ammunitions in the barracks.
βœ… There is much ammunition in the barracks..
.
12. DAMAGE (Destruction)
❌ Corruption has done a lot of damages to Nigeria.
βœ… Corruption has done a lot of damage to Nigeria.
βœ… I need to claim some damages (exceptionally refers to compensation).

13. TROUBLE
❌ He has a trouble with his wife.
βœ… He has trouble with his wife.
βœ…She has caused him a lot of trouble.

14. LUGGAGE
❌ I have a luggage in the car.
βœ… I have a piece of luggage in the car.
❌ I have some luggages in the car.
βœ… I have some luggage in the car.

15. WOOD
❌ Ada has a wood.
βœ… Ada has a log of wood.
βœ… She has some wood.

15. PAPER
❌ I need a paper to write a letter.
βœ… I need a piece of paper to write a letter.
❌ I need some papers to write.
βœ… I need some paper to write.
βœ… I left my important papers in the car. (Correctly used to refer to documents.)
.
Note:
Plain paper is treated as uncountable, while paper with information is countable, e.g You will read it in tomorrow's papers. (Newspapers)

Any question?

-Dr David Iluebe, The Grammar Doctor @ English Usage Clinic

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