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rayan  #530218  Fri, 20 Jun 08 05:22 PM
Hello,
could you please give me a list  of words like information remain as it is in the plural form, I mean we can not say informations..

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Mr Wordy  #530251  Fri, 20 Jun 08 06:43 PM

These are often called "uncountable nouns" (or "mass nouns"). For example,  you can count apples -- one apple, two apples, three apples -- but you can't count "informations". There are lots and lots of them in English. Some examples are at http://learning.cl3.ust.hk/english-grammar-guide/Nouns_and_Pronouns/noncount_nouns1x.htm. A longer list is at http://simple.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Mass_nouns. A definitive "complete" list is not feasible.

Edit: Note that a number of nouns can be countable or uncountable, depending on context. To pick an example at random, the Wiktionary list includes "change", which is uncountable in "change is a good thing", but countable in "we need to make some changes".

  
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