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I am sorry for this basic question, I am not an native English that is why poor in language. Kindly guide and help me about correct use of word (Once / Ones). I want to write I build new software and fix already build. What is correct word to use in the following sentence ? I am a software developer who has permanent residence, Bachelor degree and 4 years experience for developing new software and doing enhancements in existing once / ones Thanks for your precious time, guiding and helping me. |
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In general, ones would be correct here. However, software cannot normally be a plural noun. You wouldn't talk about many softwares. You might instead refer to many software applications. |
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"Ones" is the correct word to use. "... in existing ones" tells of how you are able to enhance "existing software". "Ones" refers to the software that already exist. "Once" refers to a time. It doesn't refer to a particular thing or object, instead, it's used to refer to a period of time. E.g.:
In the example, "once" is used to mean that the subject had a dog in a period of time in the past. |
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ones means "things of the type described earlier". once means "one time". That said, "software" is not a countable noun, so you can't really refer to it with "ones". There are also several other minor errors in your existing sentence. Try:
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