Difference between Have and Experience

What is the difference between Have and Experience?

Have as a verb is to possess, own, hold. while Experience as a verb is to observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Have

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To possess, own, hold. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship). To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action. Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect. must. To give birth to. To engage in sexual intercourse with. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command or request. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.) (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below) To defeat in a fight; take. To be able to speak a language.

Experience

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Event(s) of which one is cognizant.Activity which one has performed.Collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.The knowledge thus gathered.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Example sentence: Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

We hope you now know whether to use Have or Experience in your sentence.

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