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Start using Mumsnet PremiumGrammar Check anyone please?
(183 Posts)is it
over 17 years teaching experience
over 17 years' teaching experience
over 17 year's teaching experience
Thank you
years'
years’ - yes.
It's not teaching grammar I assume
The middle one as there's more than one year I'd say
I agree.
Or try:
I have been teaching for over seventeen years.
Or
I taught for over seventeen years.
Or
Having taught for over seventeen years.
There's always a way round a grammatical challenge.
Yep, 17 years'
I think the first one... not a contraction... not possession. I am a year 6 TA and teach a lot of grammar!
years'
First one
100% years'
I need to just say this one line so cant change wording ...so is it
1 or 2!!!
we have a mixed response
Pop an “of” in to make it a straight plural:
Over 17 years of teaching experience
It is honestly years' OP. Don't listen to the others, who are wrong.
Totally agree, it needs an 'of' and no apostrophe.
Second one - the experience 'belongs' to the years.
Years'
Pop over to pedants' corner for confirmation it's years'.
I would say first one
Or I would put ‘17years of teaching’
Agree years’
It is absolutely years’. I’m a professional editor.
like this but does THIS need an apst
Over 17 years of teaching experience
years' - because what it's really saying is "17 years of teaching experience". The implied "of" makes it a possessive, so you need the apostrophe. If the sentence were "I have been teaching for 17 years", there is no possessive, and therefore no apostrophe would be needed.
Im going with
Over 17 years of teaching experience
(no apostrophe)
picklemewalnuts
Grammar book says it's 1.
That grammar book clearly says it is 2 - years’ - in both the examples.
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