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Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

The following information are, the following information is

Can the noun information be plural? Is it correct to write "the following information are"?
  

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Information is always singular. But I find it interesting that you asked. Is it different in your language?

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Information is always singular.
But I find it interesting that you asked. Is it different in your language?
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At least in German we differ Information (singular) and Informationen (plural).

-tq
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So as in portuguese.

We have "Informação" (Singular) and "Informações" (Plural).

Thanks anyway!
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In french as well we make a distinction between Une information (singular) and Des informations (plural).

Cheers.
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The same is in Polish: informacja (Sg) and informacje (Pl) Emotion: smile

English seems to be stand out
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In Czech informationsalso are Emotion: smile
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In arabic, we also distinguish between the use of single and plural information.

I hop that I can master English and can understand such lingual differences
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In Portuguese we can use as singular or plural meaning. Informação >> singular (uma informação, a informação (= "an information", "the information"). Informações >> plural (umas informações, as informações (= "informations", "the informations").
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Yes, it is. In portuguese it is also plural. We even have a plural for the word it self.
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In Italian we have informazione and informazioni: so we often use the incorrect English plural noun because in our language there is definitely a plural form which must be used with a plural verbal form.
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