If you get [a] chance?

[47andahalf]

Help this is driving me mad!

Colleagues at work sending emails saying things like "have you had chance to review x document" or "if you get chance can you do y".

Surely it should be " if you get A chance"!

Prepared to be told I'm wrong in which case I'll take it on the chin. 😀

I'm pretty sure both are right

In my book (The Pedant's Guide ) it has to be a chance.
I know language is a living thing but we are still allowed to impose our rules. 😀
Sympathy OP ,that would set my teeth on edge .

Thank you both! Mixed opinions, I probably need to stop letting it grate on me!

I agree with you, would irritate me too.

I don't think chance on its own is right. Where I live people say go toilet instead of go to the toilet and it's so commonplace it sounds normal.

No , just NO , to go toilet.
I shall have to hide this thread now.

But what about when people say ‘…did you by chance…?’
The A is missing here. But my grammar is crap

This is just an example of ellipsis, surely? What is being said is fully understood without the need to use every, grammatically correct word. It's a feature of much spoken English, especially in informal situations.

@NigelHarmansNewWife I think you're correct.
But I don't like it any the better (see what I did there) for reading your description.