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Zorluk: ZorNouns and Noun Phrases

Complete the sentence below by filling in the blanks with the correct grammatical forms of the specified nouns (information, criterion).

Cevap:The investigative board discovered that several vital pieces of 【information】 were missing from the report, and that the single primary 【criterion】 used for the candidate's evaluation was invalid.

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The first blank requires 'information' (an uncountable mass noun) and the second blank requires 'criterion' (the singular form of the Greek loan noun).
The noun 'information' is non-count and does not accept plural inflection even after partitive quantifiers like 'pieces of'. The word 'criterion' is the singular form required by the singular modifier 'single primary' ('criteria' being plural).

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1
Determine the correct grammatical form of the noun for the first blank.
The noun 'information' is uncountable (mass noun) in standard English. It cannot be pluralized with an '-s' suffix (*informations). Partitive structures such as 'pieces of' quantify mass nouns without altering their base singular form.
Uncountable nouns remain in their base singular form regardless of plural partitive modifiers.
2
Determine the correct grammatical form of the noun for the second blank.
The modifier phrase 'the single primary' specifies a singular noun headword. In Greek-derived English nouns, 'criterion' is the singular form, whereas 'criteria' is the plural form.
The singular quantifier 'single' requires the singular noun form 'criterion'.

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Mass noun countability constraints and foreign loan word singular/plural inflections.
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Nouns and Noun Phrases

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