The following sentence has been divided into four segments. Identify the segment that contains an error.
Mr. Abhilash and his family / have received / no informations / about the incident.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. no informations.
Error concept: The error is related to uncountable nouns.
What is wrong: “Information” is an uncountable noun and cannot be plural, so “informations” is incorrect.
Grammatical concept: Uncountable nouns do not take plural forms.
Incorrectness of the concept in context: Using the plural form “informations” is grammatically incorrect.
How to correct: We should replace “informations” with “information.”
Correction: no information.
Final sentence: Mr. Abhilash and his family have received no information about the incident.