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have experienced vs had experienced

These two examples, respectively, are the past and present perfect tenses of the verb "experience."
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have experienced

This phrase is correct.

This is the present perfect tense of the word "experience." Use this form to describe something that has happened at some point in your life, or use it with a time word (this week, this year, this month) to describe an ongoing or habitual event. You can also use this form to describe the result of an action that happened before.

Some examples from our editors:

  • I have experienced the joy of seeing a double rainbow.
  • I have experienced a hostile work environment during the past year.
  • I have experienced pain in my knee ever since I fell down the stairs.
  • Jun 26, 2014 ... 1. Can you tell me which ones of these correct? "Together we experienced our first joy ride." or "Together we have experienced our first joy ride.
  • Future perfect. I will have experienced you will have experienced he will have experienced we will have experienced you will have experienced they will have ...
  • Present perfect. I, have experienced. you, have experienced. he/she/it, has experienced. we, have experienced. you, have experienced. they, have experienced ...
  • I'VE – I have experienced. What do we learn during an international workcamp? “ Dunno …”: many volunteers do not have an answer to this question. Or rather ...

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • I have had the experience of

had experienced

This phrase is correct.

This is the past perfect of the verb "experience." Usually this is used tos to describe something that happened in the past before another event.

Some examples from our editors:

  • I had experienced a lot of pain before the surgery.
  • I had experienced considerable anxiety until I discovered yoga.
  • A phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of SUTENT was conducted in patients with GIST who were intolerant to, or had experienced disease progression during or following treatment with, imatinib (Median maximum daily dose 800 mg).
  • A phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of SUTENT was conducted in patients with GIST who were intolerant to, or had experienced disease progression during or following treatment with, imatinib (Median maximum daily dose 800 mg).
  • The patients had experienced at least two relapses in the previous three years or at least one relapse per year if they had had the disease for less than three years.
  • The third study involved 383 patients who had experienced a single attack of demyelination and compared the effectiveness of Avonex with that of placebo in reducing the risk of a second attack.
  • This was different than either generation had experienced before, and it changed the way I interacted with information even at just a small level.
  • US long-term yields had experienced a particularly large decline towards the end of 2008, so that they started 2009 from a level that was the lowest in the last four decades.
  • But it felt like something I had experienced.
  • This was unlike anything that I had experienced before.
  • All patients had experienced an inadequate response to prior conventional therapies.
  • The patients had experienced at least two relapses in the previous two years.
  • Almost all women living in slum areas in Ankara in 1995 had experienced domestic violence.
  • So I told him about what I had experienced.
  • A number of companies had experienced a deterioration of their profitability prior to 11 September 2001.
  • None of the Community producers indicated that they had experienced any difficulties in their ability to raise capital.
  • For many of the young people who assembled at Parliament on 6 December it was the first time that they had experienced anything like this.
  • And a recent Gallup poll asked participants how much stress and worry and anger they had experienced the previous day.
  • I can still remember the alarming remarks made by their spokesperson, Bobby Castillo, who had experienced American prisons.
  • It was our last ever day of school, something my new stepmum had experienced only four years ago herself.
  • The half-brothers had experienced several years of VUE's malevolence, when, with a party of naturalists, they visited Medina Sidonia on a forced fuelling stop.
  • If it had experienced that depreciation, it would have benefited from a tourist boom.

Some alternatives from our editors:

  • had undergone

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