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Experience/Experienced: "With" or "In"?

English Language & Usage Asked by zeek on November 28, 2020

Very simple question this time around, folks! (Have) experience or (be) experienced both generally create a connotation of living through something and/or learning about it. The big question is which preposition follows which word, or if they change based on what concept follows them.

My closest guess is:

I have experience / I am experienced + with + general noun (cars, animals, etc.)

I have experience / I am experienced + in + field of knowledge (physics, French cuisine, etc.)

A coworker of mine believes the answer may be in word order:

I have linguistics/teaching/computer experience.

I still feel it’s possible to say experience in/with, but his addition to the argument isn’t invalid whatsoever. I do think sometimes my ascertainment is totally valid (to me), and other times there seem to be giant loopholes. Can anyone give a really thorough breakdown of which prepositions to use and where?

One Answer

Both are correct exactly the way you used them. LDOCE and ODO give examples for experience in and experience with, where experience is of course used as a noun.

Furthermore, Google Books shows extensive usage of both phrases:26,700,000 and 12,000,000 respectively.

Correct answer by Lucky on November 28, 2020

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