<p>There is more than enough information about electronics to write an in depth report on it.</p>
<p>^^I thought 'it' should be changed to 'them' because electronics is plural. or is it not??? my SAT prep teacher says it's singular, but I do not understand why.</p>
<p>Hmm, don’t quote me on this but I would guess because “electronics” is a category vs. multiple items. I could be wrong of course…</p>
<p>Consider this:
There is more than enough information about physics to write an in depth report on them.</p>
<p>It’s English; don’t try to have it make sense. Jury, company, faculty, and team are collective nouns and singular. It’s the same type of rule.</p>
<p>But of course with English there are rarely rules without exceptions; certainly, electronics isn’t always singular, e.g., “the electronics in this device are very complex”.</p>
<p>Electronics is the name of a field/category. In this case, it is singular. Ex. There is more than enough information about electronics to write an in depth report on it.</p>
<p>Electronics is also a plural when referring to multiple electrical components. Ex. The electronics in my new car broke down.</p>
<p>^yeah. it really depends on the context. Some other field-related terms are confusing, depending on the sentence context. For example, statistics, politics, mathematics, etc.</p>
<p>Indeed.</p>
<p>One uses statistics (plural) in the study of statistics (singular).</p>