[Vocabulary] infrastructure or infrastructures?

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maoyueh

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1. Brazil had spent billions of U.S. dollars on the soccer tournaments, but health, education and transportation infrastructures were neglected.

2. Brazil had spent billions of U.S. dollars on the soccer tournaments, but health, education and transportation infrastructure was neglected.

3. Brazil had spent billions of U.S. dollars on the soccer tournaments, but health infrastructure, education infrastructure and transportation infrastructure were neglected.

Which sentence is correct? Thank you very much.
 

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I would go with the first option.
 

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Do you consider that health and education have infrastructure?
 

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Do you consider that health and education have infrastructure?

Thank you for your question.

I used google search and found that there is public health infrastructure both in Canada and India, and there is educational infrastructure in Mexico. So if I rephrase the terms in sentence #1, then is it correct? Thank you again.
 

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Thank you for your question.

I used google search and found that there is public health infrastructure both in Canada and India, and there is educational infrastructure in Mexico. So if I rephrase the terms in sentence #1, then is it correct? Thank you again.

I find it correct as written.
 
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