Learn English – ‘I take no objection’ or ‘I have no objection’

word-choice

Have vs. Take

Google Books indicates usage of 'take' though 'have' is perhaps more common, particularly in a legal setting: I have no objections, Your Honour.

Is there any difference between, for example:

  1. I have no objection to your proposal
  2. I take no objection to your proposal

or are they interchangeable?

Is it that 'take' can only be used in the singular? 'I take no objections, Your Honour' sounds ghastly.

Best Answer

Your confusion here is due to counting. "To take objection" is a verb phrase, and is synonymous with "to object"; it does not count a number of objections.

However, if you want to count a number of objections (and "no", "none" and "zero" are all counting) then you use the verb "to have".

Hence it is:

I take objection to that!

I have an objection to that!

I don't take objection to that.

I have no objection to that.

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