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Apostrophe or no?

12-07-2016 03:06PM

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bpmurray

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

... over ten years' experience ...

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#2 13-07-2016 07:43PM

MathsManiac

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The latter.

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#3 13-07-2016 07:44PM

sbs2010

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No, no apostrophe.

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

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#4 13-07-2016 07:56PM

ezra_pound

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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.

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#5 13-07-2016 08:03PM

sbs2010

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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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