adopt a name or accept a name

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
1

Hi All,

If a woman gets married and want to change her name we say,

  • she adopts the name of her husband
    or
  • she accept the name of her husband
    or are both of them wrong?
2

takes

3

Hi Attila,

‘Adopt’ in your sentence suggests take on with the idea of doing this with something new. ‘Accept’ suggests agree to take. Don’t forget the ‘s’ for the third person singular as in: ‘wants to change’ and ‘she accepts’. Both sentences are perfectly correct but as I have tried to explain, there is a slight difference in emphasis.

Alan

4

Thanks and sorry, for forgetting the ‘s’ for the third person.