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Subject:Re: Years in Toronto From:"Williams, Diane (contractor)" <Williams_Diane -at- DOTE -dot- OSD -dot- MIL> Date:Wed, 5 Mar 1997 13:57:48 -0500
>Other expressions considered descriptive are those that, if rewritten as
phrases, would take the prepositions 'for' or 'by' rather than 'of' ...<
Well, now I know why the apostrophe in "two years' experience" looks
so odd to me: I read the Globe every day on the way to work!
- Maurice Rose<<
But your reason above is why two years' experience needs the apostrophe!
Because it means "of."
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