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 #2 (permalink) Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:33 am is Experience countable? |
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Hi,
'Experience' in the sense of acquired knowledge from what you have done or seen or learnt is uncountable as in: She has had considerable expeience in information technology through her previous jobs.
'Experience' in the sense of one or more incidents/events that you have been involved in is countable as in: She had an unpleasant experience yesterday when she thought she had lost her front door key.
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Jan 08, 2008 15:08 pm is Experience countable? |
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| Alan wrote: |
Hi,
'Experience' in the sense of acquired knowledge from what you have done or seen or learnt is uncountable as in: She has had considerable expeience in information technology through her previous jobs.
'Experience' in the sense of one or more incidents/events that you have been involved in is countable as in: She had an unpleasant experience yesterday when she thought she had lost her front door key.
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Thanks, Alan!
Could you help me check if there is any grammatical mistake in part of my C.V. as follows:
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Jobs experiences:
ABC school teacher (04-05)
BBT Company Manager (05-06)
NNMM Company Project manager assistant (06-07)
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Is it grammatically correct to use experiences (pural) instead of experience above?
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Jan 08, 2008 15:39 pm is Experience countable? |
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Hi,
In addition to Alan's advice, I'd like to recommend you a valuable dictionary (when it comes to determining what noun is countable and what is not):
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=27061&dict=CALD
It is a British-oriented dictionary and does not cover tons of words, but I find it rather educational. |
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