[General] At the time of leaving organisation

[Matthew Wai]

A sleep-deprived person may very well do so.

If such a person has time to dream of sleeping, s/he may very well use the time to sleep.

 

[Weaver67]

There are things that can be done in parallel, though. I do not think that, generally speaking, doing one thing should always prevent a person from doing another.

Could dreaming of being reach one day prevent anyone from working hard? You may have a dream and do something to make it come true.

As for sleep, do you think that mothers nursing their children days and nights away do not dream of having a good night sleep one day?

 

[tzfujimino]

It should be "rich", Weaver!

 

[tedmc]

I think you nurse children only when they are sick. Otherwise, it is called child-minding.

Correction: Childminding is taking care of other people's children. Mothers just take care/look after their own children.

 

[Weaver67]

When applied to mothers, nursing can also mean breast feeding. When a mother is awakened from sleep (or rather, her dreaming of sleep) by her crying child at night, this can mean different things. One of them is very common: the child is hungry. So she just takes it out of the cradle and hold it carefully and caressingly close to her breast -- this is also called nursing.

Not a teacher.

 

[Eckaslike]

I think you nurse children only when they are sick.

Hi tedmc, that is one of its meanings. Weaver67 is using it correctly to mean something else. Nurse, has the general sense of "to look after, carefully", whether or not the person being nursed is sick or not.

A mother can nurse her child in at least three other ways: ( http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/nurse )
1. To give it a cuddle when it is upset.
2. To breast feed it.
3. To take care of it as it grows.

When I hear the term used, as Weaver67 used it, I just naturally think of it as generally meaning "taking care of", or "looking after".

So in Weaver67's sentence, to me, it just naturally means, "As for sleep, do you think that mothers taking care of their children days and nights away do not dream of having a good night sleep one day?"

But it could mean any of the three meanings listed above in the dictionary, and possibly more. Without further information, we can't be sure.

We can even nurse a cup of tea, or other drink, by just carefully holding and not drinking it.

The more I write these things, the weirder I think we must appear! :lol:

 

[MikeNewYork]

1. I have little experience of working with children.
2. It was my first experience of living alone.
3. Nothing will prepare you for the jaw-dropping experience of taking the desert road out of the city for the first time.

Is this only I who doesn't deem these three to sound quite unnatural?

If not, then what is it that makes the OP's "of" redundant and the sentence with it unnatural?

This is very interesting indeed. Still, I am among those who wouldn't use "of" in the OP's example; but I cannot say for sure why.

1. "Of" is not needed. Experience working with children is fine as it is.
2. I could go either way with this one.
3. In this sentence "of" is needed.

 

[mawes12]

do you think that mothers nursing their children days and nights away do not dream of having a good night sleep one day?

Maybe they can take break when they can.

 

[suniljain]

It has been a wonderful experience of working here.

Can I conclude that using "of " in above sentence is not incorrect by may be avoided?

 

[Weaver67]

I has been a wonderful experience of working here.

Can I conclude that using "of " in above sentence is not incorrect by may be avoided?

What is certainly incorrect in the sentence is "I has been...".

Not a teacher.

 

[mawes12]

It has been a wonderful experience of working here.

Can I conclude that using "of " in above sentence is not incorrect by may be avoided?

If you are asking that would it still be correct if you take off 'of' in 'It has been a wonderful experience of working here.' then I think you are correct and 'working here' would be an appositive for 'It'.

Not a teacher.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'Working here has been a wonderful experience.'
'It has been a wonderful experience working here.'

I think 'of' is not needed above.

 

[mawes12]

3. In this sentence "of" is needed.

What sentence?

 

[Matthew Wai]

The sentence below.

3. Nothing will prepare you for the jaw-dropping experience of taking the desert road out of the city for the first time.