More suffixes of nouns
-ability: capability - reliability - disability
-an: Christian - electrician- comedian
-ant: applicant - assistant - attendant
-ar: liar - beggar
-arian: librarian - vegetarian - veterinarian
-ary: library - glossary - secretary
-ator: translator - narrator - generator
-burger: hamburger - cheeseburger - fishburger
-cide: pesticide - homicide - suicide
-cracy: democracy - autocracy - bureaucracy
-ese: Sudanese - journalese - Japanese
-ician: musician - magician - beautician
-ics: semantics - ethics - physics
-let: booklet - anklet - wristlet
-logy: phonology - biology - astrology
-mania: bibliomania - dinomania - florimania
-onym: synonym - homonym - pseudonym
-phobia: agoraphobia - euphobia - zoophobia
-tude: aptitude - longitude - latitude
-ty: ability - certainty - chastity
-ure: pressure - fracture - legislature
-age: shortage - coverage - postage
-ance: acceptance - appearance - utterance
-ation: education - affirmation - information
-dom: boredom - freedom - kingdom
-ee: trainee - divorcee - employee
-eer: engineer - auctioneer - mountaineer
-ence: difference - existence - preference
-er: doer - maker - teacher
-ess: actress - hostess - governess
-ette: cigarette - diskette - kitchenette
-hood: childhood - manhood - falsehood
-ism: idealism - modernism - terrorism
-ist: artist - specialist - typist
-ment: government - shipment - tournament
-ness: bitterness carelessness - exactness
-ship: friendship - kinship - scholarship
-ability: capability - reliability - disability
-an: Christian - electrician- comedian
-ant: applicant - assistant - attendant
-ar: liar - beggar
-arian: librarian - vegetarian - veterinarian
-ary: library - glossary - secretary
-ator: translator - narrator - generator
-burger: hamburger - cheeseburger - fishburger
-cide: pesticide - homicide - suicide
-cracy: democracy - autocracy - bureaucracy
-ese: Sudanese - journalese - Japanese
-ician: musician - magician - beautician
-ics: semantics - ethics - physics
-let: booklet - anklet - wristlet
-logy: phonology - biology - astrology
-mania: bibliomania - dinomania - florimania
-onym: synonym - homonym - pseudonym
-phobia: agoraphobia - euphobia - zoophobia
-tude: aptitude - longitude - latitude
-ty: ability - certainty - chastity
-ure: pressure - fracture - legislature
-age: shortage - coverage - postage
-ance: acceptance - appearance - utterance
-ation: education - affirmation - information
-dom: boredom - freedom - kingdom
-ee: trainee - divorcee - employee
-eer: engineer - auctioneer - mountaineer
-ence: difference - existence - preference
-er: doer - maker - teacher
-ess: actress - hostess - governess
-ette: cigarette - diskette - kitchenette
-hood: childhood - manhood - falsehood
-ism: idealism - modernism - terrorism
-ist: artist - specialist - typist
-ment: government - shipment - tournament
-ness: bitterness carelessness - exactness
-ship: friendship - kinship - scholarship
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Get it right: Information
Information is an uncountable noun, so:
▪ it is never used in the plural
▪ it never comes after an or a number
These information ✗
These informations ✗
Those information ✗
an information ✗
This information ✓ meaning ( singular or plural )
A lot of information ✓
A little information ✓
Some information ✓
All the information ✓
No information ✓
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If you want to talk about anything countable and information, you'll need to introduce another noun
Several pieces of information ✓
Five pages of information ✓
Information is an uncountable noun, so:
▪ it is never used in the plural
▪ it never comes after an or a number
These information ✗
These informations ✗
Those information ✗
an information ✗
This information ✓ meaning ( singular or plural )
A lot of information ✓
A little information ✓
Some information ✓
All the information ✓
No information ✓
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If you want to talk about anything countable and information, you'll need to introduce another noun
Several pieces of information ✓
Five pages of information ✓
WHO’S key is this? → ❌
WHOSE key 🔑 is this? → ✔
WHOSE crying right now? → ❌
WHO’S (who is) crying? 😭→ ✔
WHOSE key 🔑 is this? → ✔
WHOSE crying right now? → ❌
WHO’S (who is) crying? 😭→ ✔
FACT: You can use “whose” with people AND objects:
I know a man *whose* dad is tall. → ✓.
I have a chair *whose* legs are broken. → ✓.
I know a man *whose* dad is tall. → ✓.
I have a chair *whose* legs are broken. → ✓.