The Information A History Theory Flood James Gleick

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The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick

Drums that talk -- Persistence of the word -- Two wordbooks -- To throw the powers of thought into wheel-work -- A nervous system for the Earth -- New wires, new logic -- Information theory -- The ...

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Normally you'd say "important information" or "urgent information", but the of form is a well-accepted formal phrasing. You might try to use it to indicate owner of the information, but that's really awkward. "The disk contains information of Sony on their newest mp3 player" - but I don't think you'd ever encounter it in real life.

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All the dictionaries I have say that the word "information" is usually used in combination with "on" or "about". However, when I Googled with the phrase "information of", there were a lot of hits. ...

I thought information is singular and plural. But now I'm not sure which version is right: The dialogue shows two important informations. OR The dialogue shows two important information. Which ...

The information refers to a specific set of information; that which the speaker obtains from fish. The oceans refers to the oceans of the world. Fish refers to fish in general.

Which is grammatically correct? A visit was made to local supermarket to observe and collect information for/on/about the fat contents of vegetable spread and butter available in the store.

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All this information is correct. The sentence is absolutely correct. The word "all" has been used as a predeterminer before the determiner "this" followed by an uncountable noun "information". The pattern predeterminer + determiner + countable/uncountable noun is grammatically correct.

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