If someone asks me
Does 8:30 am work for you for the meeting, or should have it 2 in the afernoon?
I want to say, of these two options I choose the 2pm one. What is the colloquial word/expression of saying I choose or I select?
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Does 8:30 am work for you for the meeting, or should have it 2 in the afernoon?
I want to say, of these two options I choose the 2pm one. What is the colloquial word/expression of saying I choose or I select?
There are several ways one might indicate which time is best:
8:30 sounds good.
Let's go with 8:30.
How about 8:30.
8:30 works.
8:30 would be fine.
I would avoid saying I choose 8:30 for the reasons FumbleFingers has mentioned. I would prefer 8:30 is more polite, but I would probably use the above forms instead.
The most common one (particularly in business English) is I'll go with, or we'll go with if the decision is for more than one person.
Let's go with having the meeting at 4. That way we can leave early if the meeting is short.
I'm going to go with the chilli-mayo dip, please.
We went with a green cover for the document, because we felt that best represented the company's values
Note that with the exception of the past-tense form (eg we went with green because it matches the company logo), "go with" is very informal for use in formal writing.
Yet another option is I would prefer X.
Would you like coffee or tea?
I would prefer coffee, please.Would you like meet at 8:30 or 2 in the afternoon?
I would prefer 2 o'clock as I have another appointment in the morning.
Note that prefer is quite soft word. It suggests that any option is fine for you, in general, but you have reasons to choose a certain one. If you state your reasons, it would become obvious that another option is not actually fine for you. Anyway, using a polite expression is never wrong.
Also, if neither option is good for you, I would rather is the way to go:
Would you like meet at 8:30 or 2 in the afternoon?
I would rather meet tomorrow as I'm not in the city today.