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Rotter Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Experience

1b001. In my experience people who don't train are prone to put on weight.02b02br
01font01font00[02font00 I train 3 times a week and thanks to the training schedule I weigh 60-62 kilos. 02font00Most of the people I associate weigh over 80 kilos because of lack of physical activities. ]02br
00 My question is on the word experience here.02br
00 The verb experience is both countable and uncountable. 02br
00In the above it is uncountable. 01font00How do I judge that it is uncountable in the above? 02font0-
  

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0Rotter,02br
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00It sounds better to start the sentence with "As far as I know," not "In my experience."02br
00It is not your experience that people gain weight if they don't work out.0-
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0Thanks for the reply.02br
00I hear people say the words 'In my experience ... '02br
00I would not discard your way of writing. It sounds fine.02br
00My question is how to judge the uncountable nature. 0-
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0Rotter,02br
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00If someone says, "In my experice...," the word "experince" means "knowledge that you gain about life and the world by being in different situations and meeting different people, or the process of gaining this."02br
00In this case, "experience" is an uncountable noun.02br
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00- In his experience, women did not like getting
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0Another good explanation, Takoyaki. By the way, I remember reading a thread about your last example, and if I remember correctly "three years of experience is preferred". Just a small comment.0-
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0New2grammar,02br
00Thank you for the comment.02br
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001) three years' experience02br
002) three years of experience02br
00The second would be more common.0-
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0 Let us say you work as a teacher of English.02br
01b002.Your experiences as a teacher is valuble to the forum.02b02br
00The verb experience in the above is countable.02br
00Your or my experience on some aspect knows no boundaries. I mean it is not possible to fix a size or volume; I maybe wrong here.02br
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0Your experience as a teacher will be valuable in this new job. (Mass use of the word experience.)02br
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00Your experiences as a teacher in an urban school will make this wealthy, suburban school feel like a picnic. (Countable use of "experiences" referring to many separate encounters.)0-
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0 Thanks Grammar Geek02br
00You didn't see the following:02br
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01b002.Your experiences as a teacher is valuble to the forum.02b02br
01font01b00 [ Probably the auxiliary verb 'is' wrong here. It should be 'are'. Please tell me.]02b00 02font0-
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02 - I would make that "experience" as the mass noun, not the countable noun. But if you have a reason for wanting it to be a plural use of the countable form, then certainly use "are," which is not an auxiallary verb, but the main verb.0-
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0Thanks Grammar Geek02br
00Usually the verb which determines the tense of the sentence is the auxiliary verb. 02br
00So the verb 'is' or 'are' should be an auxiliary verb. 01font00I can't fathom out your point.02font02br
00You have written the word 'auxiallary'. 01font00Is it AmE? 02font
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