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Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Take decisions, make decisions

Do people "takes decisions" or "make decisions" ?
  

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You can: arrive at / come to / make / reach / take a decision 'Make' a decision is more common.

— Woodward

  • You can: arrive at / come to / make / reach / take a decision 'Make' a decision is more common.
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You can: arrive at / come to / make / reach / take a decision
'Make' a decision is more common.
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do they? It takes them ages to come to decisions. Any other way of saying that?
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There might be another way, but I'm not sure. I'll have to think it over carefully first. Ask me again next week.Emotion: wink
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0To me as a Swedish speaker of English, "to take decisions" sounds "Swenglish", English influcenced by the Swedish of native speakers.0-
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The only reason 'take' sounds the least bit viable is that it is what I have learned in French. [Similar, I guess, to Swenglish.] I do not know any native English speakers who use 'take' in this case.
One can, however, either make or take a choice.
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Americans make decisions.
Brits take decisions.
CJ
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Certainly which side of the Atlantic you're on makes a significant difference, but "take" also has the connotation that the decision has really been thought about and has an air of legitimacy and finality. For example, in my experience, "The man made the decision to buy two cauliflowers, instead of the usual one," but "the judicial conduct committee took the decision to ban the man from the city f
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Both are cumbersome. I decide.

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