👌🏻Get it right: #damage
    

✨When damage means ‘harm or injury’ it is an uncountable noun, and so:

▪  it is never used in the plural
▪  it never comes after a or a number

🔹These toxins can cause damages to the lungs and brains.✘
🔸These toxins can cause damage to the lungs and brains.✔️

🔹They should consider the serious damages that their decisions may cause.✘
🔸They should consider the serious damage that their decisions may cause.✔️

🔹A great damage has been done to agriculture, forests, and people’s health.✘
🔸Great damage has been done to agriculture, forests, and people’s health.✔️

✨The plural form damages is a specialized legal term meaning ‘money that a court orders you to pay someone because you have harmed them or their property’.

🔻Mr Galloway was awarded substantial damages.


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