Timeline for "Have the chance of" or "have a chance of"
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| Sep 21 at 6:05 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Aug 21 at 22:19 | answer | added | Michael Lorton | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jul 22 at 6:57 | answer | added | James Mathai | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 20:12 | comment | added | stangdon | I wouldn't say either of those. I would say Once you've had a chance to review the document. I would use the present perfect, because the having a chance happens before letting you know what I think. And "a chance to review" is much more common than "chance of reviewing". | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 19:33 | history | edited | If_You_Say_So |
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| Apr 5, 2021 at 19:21 | comment | added | If_You_Say_So | Thanks. I can see that 'have a chance of' is more frequently used. Does that mean that the first one is correct and the second one is incorrect in my example then? | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 19:19 | history | edited | If_You_Say_So | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2021 at 19:16 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | Google Books Ngram Viewer is frequently helpful in assessing the popularity of phrases such as these: books.google.com/ngrams/… | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 19:11 | history | asked | If_You_Say_So | CC BY-SA 4.0 |