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Is the clause chances are grammatically correct? 0 'Chances are' is usually immediately followed by that, and I don't think it's grammatically incorrect If you look here, it says that 'chances are that' is an equivalent of 'the likelihood is' and they both sound correct
grammaticality - plenty of chance or plenty of chances - English . . . 1 Is it correct to say 'plenty of chance' rather than 'plenty of chances' or are they both acceptable? You certainly wouldn't say 'many chance' but 'many chances' Is there something about the phrase 'plenty of' or is it that the word 'chance' can be used to mean more than one opportunity, thus intrinsically denoting a plurality of concept?
my chances of winning vs. chances of me winning The difference is that in my chances of winning, my modifies chances and therefore must be possessive, while in chances of me winning, me is the subject of a gerund clause, and therefore may be either objective (me) or possessive (my) because there are two complementizers for gerund complements, one using objective subjects and the other using possessive Both are grammatical here This is not
How infrequent is “a non-zero chance”? - English Language Usage . . . He said that his chances of getting the job were zero (= he had no chance) -- source -- The word zero in this entry is an adjective The meaning of non-zero should be intuitive then; or, as Lewis Carroll would have it, if one understands the term "zero chance", then one is bound to understand "non-zero chance", too
Using Chances are. . . - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Here's the sentence I'm wrestling with: "Chances are most of your customers are " Is this correct? Or should it be "Chances are that most of your customers " or "Chances are, most of your custo
What does “slim odds”mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The synonymous phrase "poor chances" strongly constrains "low odds" to be the common (non-technical) usage of odds for or odds of So "low odds" would mean that the event of interest is less likely to happen than not This is consistent with the rest of the definition you've quoted regarding "slim odds"