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[Chan-Seung Lee]

1.I experienced studying in U.S. last year.
2.The successful candidate will have strong creative skills by experiencing supervising international accounts.



First, is #1 correct grammatically? If so, is 'experience+verb+ing' used among native speakers?

Second, As which is 'supervising' in #2 used, 'adjective' or 'verb+ing'?
If it is used as 'adjective', what does it mean?

Thanks.

[Mister Micawber]

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The sentences are awkward but grammatically correct. The -ing forms are gerunds in both sentences, and are verb objects of experience.

Experience + doing, as I said, is awkward, and a native would most likely prefer, for instance:

1.I studied in the U.S. last year.
2.The successful candidate will have strong creative skills from supervision of international accounts.
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