on,about,of
Hello everybody!

1.Could you clarify the diffrence between:
"information on smth.",
"information about smth.",
"information of smth."?

2.Which of the phrases are correct :
a) don't get into much details or detail (?)
b) don't get into many details

I thought that "detail" is a countable noun and we should use "many" with it,but recently I've heard as a native-speaker used "much detaits".So I am confused know((

Question

on,about,of
Hello everybody!

1.Could you clarify the diffrence between:
"information on smth.",
"information about smth.",
"information of smth."?

2.Which of the phrases are correct :
 a) don't get into much details or detail (?)
 b) don't get into many details

I thought that "detail" is a countable noun and we should use "many" with it,but recently I've heard as a native-speaker used "much detaits".So  I am confused know((

Answer

1) The third sentence would never be used. The first and second sentence are pretty much the exact same. Except: the 1st one would not be used when writing a paper (it also makes cops in TV shows look more badass for some reason :)).

2) both of the sentences are wrong. I'm not sure of your context, but I would probably say "don't get into TOO much detail" or "don't get into TOO many details".

About your native speaker: everybody gets stuff wrong sometimes, even if they are natives :)

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