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- experience, of, in or with - WordReference Forums
Hey everyone, Im trying to explain to a friend of mine the difference between having experience in of with and to tell you the truth think Ive done more damage than good with my rambling explanations so heres hoping we can get some collective explanations on the subject I have a lot of
- From In my experience-preposition - WordReference Forums
From my experience is possible, but not common (at least in BE) For example, if you look at the British National Corpus, you find 19 examples, compared with 194 for in my experience In the US corpus (COCA) there is a similar pattern: 165 from compared with 750 in (Judging) from my experience, it is true
- a large experience - WordReference Forums
When you say "an" experience, you are referring to a single experience, like "I had an interesting experience while I was in Italy " But when you are referring to experience that you acquired while working on a job, you refer to it as experience collectively "Strong" just isn't a word used to describe experience
- experience of doing in doing - WordReference Forums
I agree Sophie, 'experience in' often relates to an activity in which it is possible to become proficient or specialise; where different degrees of experience can be gained 'Experience of' is broader and relates to one's exposure to something (a place, activity, emotion, etc) However I feel that (A) is of course correct, but (B) is possibly incorrect (it anyway jars slightly), unless it is
- I have experience of working with . . . or . . of work with . . .
I have experience working with (no "of") The COCA (AE Corpus) has many examples of have experience of + gerund Here is one - Well, we have experience of operating in regimes in every part of the world, and they cover many different political shades So we will use our expertise to try to push the boundaries of what can be reported (Source)
- have experience in of with - WordReference Forums
Cambridge doesn't give an example of 'experience with', but it does give one for 'experience in': experience in sth Their experience in marketing and promotion has brought excellent results Which is pretty similar to Oxford's example: I had some experience in fashion design
- two-years experience - WordReference Forums
Hello, I would like to ask a question about the usage of the phrase "two- years experience" in this sentence: " I am a BA journalism graduate with two-years experience in campus journalism " Context: I was helping my friend complete the first sentence of his summary in his resume and came
- Wide experience | WordReference Forums
You can say "wide experience", which is why you get google hits, but it doesn't match this context "Wide experience" is used when talking about a variety of experience, whereas vast extensive are used when talking about a lot of experience Since the sentence doesn't indicate any kind of range of different experiences, wide doesn't fit, whereas vast and extensive do
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