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Apostrophe or no?

  • 12-07-2016 04:06PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭


    Which of the following is correct?
    1. ... over ten years experience ...
    2. ... over ten years' experience ...


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭MathsManiac


    The latter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 593 ✭✭✭sbs2010


    No, no apostrophe.

    The experience is yours. It doesn't belong to the years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ezra_pound


    sbs2010 wrote: »
    No, no apostrophe.

    The experience is yours. It doesn't belong to the years.

    Hmmm. The experience is of ten years.

    The same way that a week's pay is the pay of a week and a year's duration...

    It should definitely have an apostrophe op.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 593 ✭✭✭sbs2010


    ezra_pound wrote: »
    Hmmm. The experience is of ten years.

    The same way that a week's pay is the pay of a week and a year's duration...

    It should definitely have an apostrophe op.


    Ok I agree. Say you were talking about one year, you'd say

    One year's experience
    Not
    One year experience


    Apologies all round, carry on .....


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