My girlfriend is going through resumés and thought this sentence fragment was grammatically incorrect:
"One plus years experience in…"
She thinks it should be either:
"One plus years' experience…"
or
"One plus years of experience…"
Which one is correct?
Best Answer
None is very felicitous. OED has this example:
...which would indicate that "One year plus of experience" would be better than putting plus before year. It does sound better.
Better still would be to avoid it altogether and write "More than a year's experience..."
Having read the question better, it appears that there is no option on word order and the query is about whether years should be possessive.
Any positive number which is not exactly one is treated as a plural, but if we were to ignore the plus and treat it as exactly one, it would be written as either
Using a possessive form with a plural number we would write "two years' experience", so if that is to be used, then one plus years' experience would be correct. As would using of with no possessive, as suggested.
Neither reads well.