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Ant_222 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Chance of/for [a] victory

Hello all,

I have this sentence: «He defended very skilfully, not giving me a single chance of victory» and should like to know which preposition — of or for— is better and whether an indefinite article is required to modify victory. I have seen all these usages and would appreciate your explaining the difference between them.
  

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Hi; You can use either preposition: chance of victory; chance for victory. There is no real difference. The article is optional.

— AlpheccaStars

  • Hi; You can use either preposition: chance of victory; chance for victory.
  • There is no real difference.
  • The article is optional.
  • Probably it would be omitted more often than not.
  • "a victory" would be one victory, "the victory" would be winning this particular match.
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Hi;

You can use either preposition: chance of victory; chance for victory. There is no real difference.
The article is optional. Probably it would be omitted more often than not.
"a victory" would be one victory, "the victory" would be winning this particular match.

My choice would be to use these:

He defended very skilfully, not giving me a single chance of winn
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i am agree with alphecca stars's opinion,good luck
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You agree with somebody. Don't use the verb to be before 'agree'.
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hi ,we have learnt in our class ,teacher said that be agree with sb.agree is a adj.here.
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Thank you, Alphecca. I like your variant with "win".
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carol158hi ,we have learnt in our class ,teacher said that be agree with sb.agree is a adj.here.
I do not agree!
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carol158hi ,we have learnt in our class ,teacher said that be agree with sb.agree is a adj.here.
Sigh!
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yeah.i am sorry for my mistake,i remember the word by mistake ,thanks for your advice
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