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Bookmark or Share- experience, of, in or with - WordReference ForumsEnglish--U.S. Jun 10, 2009. #2. I am not sure if the phrase "to have experience of" is commonly used. "In" and "with" are more frequently used with it. I would think that to have experience in something refers to a particular field. For example, "I have a lot of experience in sales and marketing" or "I have experience in teaching."
- 15 years' experience - WordReference ForumsThe test is what we say with one: we say one year/z/ experience, not one year experience. So the S indicates a genitive, so plural 15 years' is correct (and one year's). Distinguish this from one year of experience, fifteen years of experience.
- experience + that-clause | WordReference ForumsI would appreciate your answers. There are two types of that clauses: that-noun clause and that-adjective clause. A that-noun clause functions like a noun, meaning that it can represent the direct object of a verb. A that-adjective clause modifies a noun. The difference between the two is that in a noun clause, the word "that" plays no function ...
- 3-year v. 3 years' experience - WordReference ForumsA "three-year experience" means that you had an experience that lasted three years. For example: "I lived in France in the 1990s. It was a wonderful three-year experience". "This position requires three years' experience" means, as you know, work experience. Frankly, I dislike this shortening of the proper phrase which is, in my mind "three ...
- "Wide experience" - WordReference ForumsYou 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 ...
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