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| kwfine wrote: | Which of the noun phrases is Inappropriate:
1. she doesn't have any job experience
2. she doesn't have any job's experience |
Of course, the first one is correct, and the second one is wrong.
Notice that in all of the texts you found that say "Job's experience" the word "Job" is spelled with a capital J, and all the texts are religious. This is because it doesn't refer to work or a profession, but to a man in the Bible named Job (pronounced [dʒowb]). They are talking about his experience, something that happened to him. There is an entire book of the Bible devoted to the story of Job. You can find it here:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/job/job1.htm
Even if you don't read the story, it's important to know who Job is and what happened to him, because he comes up in some English idioms, as when people say things like, "He has the patience of Job," and references to Job appear in many English contexts. He's as important as any Shakespeare character. |
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| Sun Jan 27, 2008 16:13 pm when to use 's? |
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Many thanks to you, Jamie!
BTW,
could you tell if "job experience" has a pural form, please?
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| Sun Jan 27, 2008 16:19 pm when to use 's? |
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| kwfine wrote: | BTW,
could you tell if "job experience" has a pural form, please? |
It could, but if it does, it's so seldom that I can't think of an example. |
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| Sun Jan 27, 2008 16:59 pm when to use 's? |
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| Oh! Wait a minute. It would be grammatical (but unusual) to say "job experiences", but "jobs experience" would be completely wrong. |
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| Sun Jan 27, 2008 20:10 pm when to use 's? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | Oh! Wait a minute. It would be grammatical (but unusual) to say "job experiences", but "jobs experience" would be completely wrong. |
Thank you so much for the help, Jamie!
@Jamie
I am sorry!
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| Sun Jan 27, 2008 23:33 pm when to use 's? |
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| kwfine wrote: | | Thank you so much for the help, Jamie? |
Why the question mark?  |
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