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Alc24 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

CHANCE (smaller or less chance)

How would you properly say these 3 sentences please?

1 Your chances of winning diminish if you do that. (can you use DIMINISH?)

2 You have more chance of losing if you do that.

3 The more people there are, the less chance you have of winning./ The less players there are, the more chance you have of winning.

Thank you so much
  

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more chance - I think its better to use "a greater chance of winning" bigger/smaller chance (I think they are okay too) "a lesser chance of winning" You can use "small chance" with a small difference in meaning. There is a small chance of winning the game if you guys can work as a team. If you guys don't work as a team, you all will have a lesser/smaller chance of winning the game.

— Holyduke

  • more chance - I think its better to use "a greater chance of winning" bigger/smaller chance (I think they are okay too) "a lesser chance of winning" You can use "small chance" with a small difference in meaning.
  • There is a small chance of winning the game if you guys can work as a team.
  • If you guys don't work as a team, you all will have a lesser/smaller chance of winning the game.
  • Diminish sounds fine in your sentence.
  • " (chance is a countable noun, so you have to add "a" infront) You will have a greater chance of losing if you do that.
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more chance - I think its better to use "a greater chance of winning" bigger/smaller chance (I think they are okay too)

"a lesser chance of winning"

You can use "small chance" with a small difference in meaning.

There is a small chance of winning the game if you guys can work as a team.

If
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1 diminish is ok / also: is reduced

2 greater chance

3 The more people there are, the smaller your chances of winning / The fewer players there are the greater your chance of winning. [These are just lest awkward than what you have listed.]
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Thank you Philip,

I'd also go with SMALLER your chances, but could you say "you have less chance of winning"

I know you can say "you have more chance of winning"

it say it here in the dictionary, but not with LESS?

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