Mistake: Uncountable Nouns
advice, information, furniture are uncountable.
Examples
- Wrong: advices. Right: pieces of advice.
Key rules
- Advice, information, furniture, news and research are uncountable in English
- Do not add -s to make them plural
- Use phrases such as a piece of advice or a piece of furniture to count them
Common mistakes
- advices → pieces of advice
- informations → information
Use cases
- Asking for help
- Describing rooms
- Writing news reports
💡 Tip: Use an uncountable noun with much and little, not many and few.