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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Experience

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001. Do you have any experience of working with data security?02br
00In the above the word experience is an uncountable noun. For some reason, in English, when you learn something by studying or working it is not countable. 02br
002. I have good/some experience of working with data security.02br
003. I have good/some experiences of working with data security.02br
00How about my second and third sentences? Are both fine? 0-
  

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01cite10Anonymous12cite11b11font10This is Rotter again. I can't log in to the forum. I tried in vain to log in using my username and the password. It accepts log in details. What is the problem? 12font12b12blockquote
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00I looked at the sites you have mentioned here.02br
00You are correct. It should be 'experience in'. For me to write 'experience in' sounds natural.02br
00I just looked at my Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 02br
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00It says 'knowledge or skill gained while doing a job is uncountable and the preposition is 'in'.
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00This is Rotter again.02h3

00Is the dictionary entry is fine? 0-
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00110 10[ U ]10 10(the process of getting) knowledge or skill which is obtained from doing, seeing or feeling things:12br
10Do you have any experience 11b10of12b10 working with kids12br
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10I trust this Cambridge entry, but at least as an AmE speaker, I find11b11i10 of1
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0 My listings from GB above show that01b00 both02b00 are used. I indicated my 01b00preference02b00 based on frequency. 0-

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