Choice, Choose, Chose

A Dutch proverb: He that has a choice has trouble. Many a times you have a choice in life but in some instances you will not have a choice (choiceless): you cannot choose your parents but you have a choice to choose your friends.

Do you have a choice to choose the options: the options are to join in your dream job in the USA, or to study a course in higher education in China with a fully-paid scholarship? You have created choices to choose that appeals to you.

You have a choice to choose a person of your liking either by loving someone or a person arranged by your family as is the case in many Oriental families. Choice functions as a noun and an adjective, and choices is a plural noun.

Choice as a noun refers to pick one from more than one, choosing between two or more possibilities, selecting something or someonefrom a number. Do you have a choice to live and work in more than one city? Probably you may have if you have the abilities to find work.

Choice as an adjective refers to something of superior grade, higher in quality, prized commodity; of food that is of higher or good quality, and something appealing to someone’s refined taste. Choice also refers to a language or words that are abusive, rude and offensive.

‘Choice of words’ is a phrasal noun meaning phrasing, wording, or the manner in which something is expressed in words.Few people drink choice wines. Bosses often have choice words for their subordinates.
Choiceless is an adjective: when there is no choice; a situation without a choice.

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” –Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Choose is a verb meaning to pick up something, choosing something from a number of alternatives, selective one over the other, selecting or acting in a certain way to make sure it is fit or proper.

You can choose which mobile phone to buy, if you have a choice which is no limitation on how much to spend on it. Choose is an irregular verb: chose and chose are its past tense and past participle (choose-chose-chosen). Choose your battles is an idiom, and alternative form of pick your battles.

Are you a chooser in your family for holiday destination? If you are the chooser you choose, or select or pick where to go.

By: Kovuuri G Reddy