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when to use 's? #1 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 13:30 pm   when to use 's?		  
Which of the noun phrases is Inappropriate:

1. she doesn't have any job experience
2. she doesn't have any job's experience

if the first sentence is correct, then how about are these posts:
http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=zh-TW&q=%22job%27s+experience%22&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E5%B0%8B&meta=&aq=f
why an apostrophe s is added behind "job"?

BTW, I would like to ask if "job experience" has a pural form.

Thanks for your attention!
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when to use 's? #2 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 13:41 pm   when to use 's?		  
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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when to use 's? #3 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 15:13 pm   when to use 's?		  
Many thanks to you, Jamie!

BTW,
could you tell if "job experience" has a pural form, please?
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when to use 's? #4 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 15:19 pm   when to use 's?		  
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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when to use 's? #5 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 15:59 pm   when to use 's?		  
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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when to use 's? #6 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 19:10 pm   when to use 's?		  
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!

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when to use 's? #7 (permalink) Sun Jan 27, 2008 22:33 pm   when to use 's?		  
kwfine wrote:
Thank you so much for the help, Jamie?

Why the question mark? Shocked
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