What does information mean?
Word: Information
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Information means facts or details that tell you about something or someone.
Synonyms: facts, details, data, news
How do you spell information?
Syllables: in - for - ma - tion
Tricky part: The second part is for, not fer or fur, and the word starts with in, not im. The end is tion, said like shun.
Watch out for: infermation, imformation, informashun
Memory tip: Facts are FOR you: the middle of information is for, not fer or fur.
Information in a sentence
Example 1: The railway enquiry desk gave us information about the late train.
Example 2: I found a lot of information about tigers in the school library.
Example 3: Please fill in all the information on the admission form.
Fun Fact
In standard English information has no plural with s: we say a piece of information or some information, never informations.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) information
b) newspapper
c) dictionery
d) magazeen
Show answer
a) information. Newspaper has one p, magazine ends in ine and dictionary ends in ary. That leaves information.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
inform
a) ation
b) ution
c) ition
d) etion
Show answer
a) ation. Inform takes the same ending as invitation and imagination.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
rmtoniainof
a) formation
b) inflammation
c) information
d) informative
Show answer
c) information. There is no v, which rules out informative; inflammation needs an l, and formation is two letters short.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
informmation
a) a
b) f
c) m
d) o
Show answer
c) m. Inform has a single m, and information keeps it.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Only one of these sentences gives a piece of information. Which is it?
a) Hurry up and get to the museum.
b) Please open the museum door for us.
c) The museum opens at ten in the morning.
d) What a lovely old museum this is.
Show answer
c) The museum opens at ten in the morning.
2. Tom needs information about the planets for a project. Which book would help him most?
a) a book of maths puzzles
b) a book of cricket stories
c) a book of fairy tales
d) a book about the solar system
Show answer
d) a book about the solar system
