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<blockquote data-quote="gricole" data-source="post: 15054" data-attributes="member: 236"><p>Thank you for the clarification. I wasn't referring to a situation where you put "I had the opportunity" before the phrases. I get that this is just waffle. Rather I was referring to something on the lines of:</p><p></p><p>I did XYZ whilst working in X firm. Because of what I did and the way I did it, I received positive reviews and/or a bonus. This meant that I had the opportunity to do ABC.</p><p></p><p>In this scenario, the phrase "I had the opportunity to" is used to emphasise that ABC was only possible to do because of you going the extra mile with XYZ. For instance, ABC could be that you went to an additional meeting, you were given the chance to contribute to a project in a different way etc. One can then go on to say "I took the initiative"; "I asked"; "I learnt" etc depending on the type of activity that ABC was.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gricole, post: 15054, member: 236"] Thank you for the clarification. I wasn't referring to a situation where you put "I had the opportunity" before the phrases. I get that this is just waffle. Rather I was referring to something on the lines of: I did XYZ whilst working in X firm. Because of what I did and the way I did it, I received positive reviews and/or a bonus. This meant that I had the opportunity to do ABC. In this scenario, the phrase "I had the opportunity to" is used to emphasise that ABC was only possible to do because of you going the extra mile with XYZ. For instance, ABC could be that you went to an additional meeting, you were given the chance to contribute to a project in a different way etc. One can then go on to say "I took the initiative"; "I asked"; "I learnt" etc depending on the type of activity that ABC was. [/QUOTE]
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