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#513635 Wed, 14 May 08 04:48 PM

This 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?

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1. Do you have any experience of working with data security?

In 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.

2. I have good/some experience of working with data security.

3. I have good/some experiences of working with data security.

How about my second and third sentences? Are both fine?

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Marius Hancu

#513639 Wed, 14 May 08 04:55 PM

I'd prefer in instead of of

561 on "some experience in working with

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22some+experience+in+working+with%22+&btnG=Search+Books

277 on "some experience of working with"

http://books.google.com/books?q=%22some+experience+of+working+with%22&btnG=Search+Books

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Tanit

#513648 Wed, 14 May 08 05:04 PM

Anonymous
This 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?

Hi Rotter,

There are a couple of threads about this issue:
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Rotter

#513674 Wed, 14 May 08 05:56 PM

Marius

I looked at the sites you have mentioned here.

You are correct. It should be 'experience in'. For me to write 'experience in' sounds natural.

I just looked at my Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

It says 'knowledge or skill gained while doing a job is uncountable and the preposition is 'in'.

Mine is very old. Printed in 1995.

You have some experience in teaching, computing, etc.

I read the following last week.

You should have experience of teaching English for ...

This was written by a native English speaker.

I just checked with online dictionaries too. If you look at the on line Cambridge dictionary, it uses the preposition 'of' . On line dictionaries use the latest or rather state of the art stuff.

I reckon on line dictionaries are better than my old paper dictionries. On line Webster and MSN dictionaries don't provide details.

These things are confusing.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=27061&dict=CALD

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Anonymous

#513967 Thu, 15 May 08 12:37 PM

This is Rotter again.

Is the dictionary entry is fine?

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Mister Micawber

#513970 Thu, 15 May 08 12:41 PM

1 [ U ] (the process of getting) knowledge or skill which is obtained from doing, seeing or feeling things:
Do you have any experience of working with kids

I trust this Cambridge entry, but at least as an AmE speaker, I find of less natural than in.