Grammar Check anyone please?

[Overseasmom100]

is it

over 17 years teaching experience
over 17 years' teaching experience
over 17 year's teaching experience

Thank you

There was a shop near us (now closed) that sold:

BED'S, CARPET'S, MATTRESSE'S

Damn near made my head explode.

@chomalungma
So, you're saying comprehension is everything. So I can, in fact, say -

I have over seventine years teeching experience

• and you will consider employing me because, hey, you get what I mean. Or is it only apostrophes which can be left out (like the one missing after years ....!)

and you will consider employing me because, hey, you get what I mean. Or is it only apostrophes which can be left out (like the one missing after years

It's only apostrophes and only in specific circumstances.

@PegasusReturns

Teacher of English here. Definitely number 1. A straight forward plural

Awkward

😂😂 Very! And also worrying! I hope they aren't teaching my children!

I realise I’m late to the party, but I just have to add another vote for years’

The English teacher who thinks it’s the first one... I despair!

I have to say @JONSAR I’m seriously impressed at the, albeit misplaced, confidence of coming on this thread, seeing that the vast majority of people disagree with you and then announcing your credentials and opinion.

Did you not second guess yourself even for a second?

@PegasusReturns

I LOVE this thread, not least because it has reminded me of the grocer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels who speak's like this, with misplaced apostrophe's - a lovely little visual gag that always makes me smile!

It is definitely number two, of course.

I got my job (which involves a lot of proofing) despite a total lack of experience because of my perfectly written cover letter and CV, so these things do matter.

[quote Mummyoflittledragon]@ClutchingMyPearlsAppropriately

d) This is a woman who’s either being defined or defining herself in relation to her husband. Why can a woman not be a woman in her own right?

Or maybe it’s all ok as he’s named his boat ‘The Chippys husband’.... (apostrophe purposely omitted)?[/quote]
I get what you're saying in a way but I'm judging this in the context of her owning a chippy. It fits into what she's doing more than her husband naming his boat The Chippy's husband unless his aim is let everyone know his wife owns a chippy and to point everyone to it (Then it's the same thing and it's fine).

If she randomly calls herself the Fisherman's wife as her identity, then I'd think you had a point (though it wouldn't bother me what SHE called herself - more bothered about what her husband or someone else calls her if she's against it. As a woman, can't she make her own choice? - this is where some feminists worry me).

@Sometimesonly

I seriously doubt that the people who run The Fishermans Wife (sic) are either fishermen or even wives of fishermen. I think it's just meant to evoke an olde worlde feel of the ruddy-cheeked fisherman's wife, cooking up the freshly caught bounty (British of course) which is hauled in by her wooly-jumper wearing, pipe-smoking, cap-donning, white-beard boasting husband before they break into spontaneous sea shanties. Or something like that.

This is exactly the image I had in mind

So you could be right there - They want people to think something like this.

I got my job (which involves a lot of proofing) despite a total lack of experience because of my perfectly written cover letter and CV, so these things do matter.

I would have thought perfectly written application (CV, cover letter, etc) is the default/basic and others not so well-written are scattered here and there. It surprises me that this would be a big marker as to why you were employed.

Don't mean this as an insult, in case it comes across as one. Congrats to you. Just wondering how bad things are now that perfectly written applications override experience. Must have been really slim pickings in that area. Though, for me when it comes to proof-reading, experience doesn't matter as much as the ability to do it well. So this could be why.

The "Fishermans Wife" really doesn't bother me. An apostrophe would look strange with that font and design. Sometimes style is more important. I assume the concept is that her husband catches the fish and she cooks and sells them, so the fish are really fresh. To be honest, missing apostrophes don't bother me nearly as much as apostrophes that shouldn't be there, like this music is from the 1980's.

years'
years of experience, the experience belongs to the years, so a possessive '

I was out for a walk today.
Went past a shop and saw a sign saying "Ladies dresses'

That didn't bother me.
It would have bothered me if had said "Ladie's dresses'.

I can't explain why the second one bothers me but the first one doesn't.

This is the one that drives me mad every day - I must get up there and edit it with a brushful of white paint...

I have trained my children to shriek in rage as we pass it.

CV's is the one that really annoys me. Why? Why would you put an apostrophe there?

I can't explain why the second one bothers me but the first one doesn't.
Maybe because you are interpreting Ladies as an adjective (or rather a noun used as an adjective, not usually plural but can sort of see how it could be) whereas the second example- no excuses!

@BlackCatShadow

The "Fishermans Wife" really doesn't bother me. An apostrophe would look strange with that font and design. Sometimes style is more important. I assume the concept is that her husband catches the fish and she cooks and sells them, so the fish are really fresh. To be honest, missing apostrophes don't bother me nearly as much as apostrophes that shouldn't be there, like this music is from the 1980's.

I don’t know why we have to choose. Both bother me.

Communicating accurately in writing, in our own mother tongue, is now niche skill, like cooking, drawing, knitting and being able to play football.

• a niche skill. Geez....

'Niche' is a noun, not an adjective.

It's also an adjective.

Jeez, 'niche' is also an adjective. But why even stupidly mistakenly point it out at all?

@KaptainKaveman

'Niche' is a noun, not an adjective.

The word ‘niche’, as used in the context I used it in, is an adjective.

My point being - it’s now a skill only a relatively small sub-set of people have.

I fucking love a good adjectival noun in the morning.

I was given a life membership of The Apostrophe Protection Society a long time ago due to my ‘interest’ in apostrophes. A real thing. The membership was a semi-serious semi-rueful/jesting present.

If it is still going (unsure) I would have to return my badge and renounce my credentials as a result of this thread. I would bring the APS into disrepute if i did not.
This example always makes me slightly uneasy and I end up rewriting the sentence where possible. I would have gone for 1, but been uncertain and a bit wobbly about it.
Humbling and thought provoking.