is the word pollution singular or plural ?
The confusion delivered when making these statement "pollution makes money, disease makes opportunity"
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2In my mind it must be singular. Otherwise how could Captain Planet take pollution down to zero? – Ronan Apr 01 '14 at 10:25
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1A group of researchers found that trans-Pacific air pollution is a hidden price of the goods sent abroad... - NYT – anongoodnurse Apr 01 '14 at 10:35
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possible duplicate of Nationality as mass noun – Mitch Apr 01 '14 at 12:48
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1'Pollution' is a 'mass noun' which means grammatically it acts like a singular even though you can't see 'one' of them. See many examples explained here for example nationality. – Mitch Apr 01 '14 at 12:50
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Because unicornucopia. – tchrist Apr 01 '14 at 13:14
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Pollution is a singular noun even if it follows multiple nouns. For example, Land, water, and air pollution are/is of great concern to all people. – kta May 23 '15 at 01:39
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Pollution is definitely singular, much like other uncountable nouns, such as weather, love, information, water, furniture...
Perhaps one thing that confused you is whether "pollution" is an abstract or concrete concept: but in fact, both abstract concepts (like love) and concrete objects (like water) can be uncountable. Weather and pollution seem to me to be in a vague middle ground, since we could argue both ways.
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