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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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You may be destroying two people's chance for happiness! Why isn't it chances when we're talking about two individulals here?
Please clarify.
Please clarify.
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" To me, putting "chance" in the singular suggests that the two people share the same chance for happiness -- their chance depends on some event that involves them both, like a marriage.
- " To me, putting "chance" in the singular suggests that the two people share the same chance for happiness -- their chance depends on some event that involves them both, like a marriage.
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You certainly could say "chances." To me, putting "chance" in the singular suggests that the two people share the same chance for happiness -- their chance depends on some event that involves them both, like a marriage.
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