[Idiom] the something of your choice = the choice of your something.

[Tae-Bbong-E]

I have read one explanation of "the something of your choice" in a Toeic test.
It says I can express it in a different way. That is "the choice of your something".
In short, "the something of your choice = the choice of your something".
So, if that is right, under-written sentence of each original sentence is okay?


• Wilken said voters' First Amendment right to pick the candidate of their choice was hampered.
= Wilken said voters' First Amendment right to pick the choice of their candidate was hampered.

• When he enters Cambridge, Sir Hugo gives him freedom to pursue the studies of his choice.
= When he enters Cambridge, Sir Hugo gives him freedom to pursue the choice of his studies.

• I don’t like his choice of friends.(=the people he chooses as his friends by Oxford dictionary).
= I don't like the choice of his friends.


PS: original sentences from Longman(https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/the-something-of-your-choice) and Oxford dictionary(https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/choice_1?q=choice+).

 

[GoesStation]

Neither dictionary lists the choice of your/his/etc. something as possible and I can't think of a context where it could be used. None of your sentences modeled on that pattern are correct.

 

[probus]

I can't see where Longmans claims the two are equivalent and if they did I would disagree with them.

 

[jutfrank]

I have read one explanation of "the something of your choice" in a Toeic test.

No, you didn't. TOEIC tests never 'explain' anything. Do you mean you read it in a TOEIC training textbook?

It says I can express it in a different way. That is "the choice of your something".

That's not right. Tell or show us where you read this, please.

 

[Tae-Bbong-E]

No, you didn't. TOEIC tests never 'explain' anything. Do you mean you read it in a TOEIC training textbook?
That's not right. Tell or show us where you read this, please.

Here is the sentence from the toeic test.

Transfer from Kyoto train station to the hotel of your choice.
=Transfer from Kyoto train station to the choice of your hotel.

 

[tedmc]

Here is the sentence from the toeic test.

Transfer from Kyoto train station to the hotel of your choice.
=Transfer from Kyoto train station to the choice of your hotel.

The first sentence is fine. hotel of your choice is the hotel you have chosen.

The second sentence does not make sense. You can transfer from one place to another place, not transfer from one place to "a choice".

 

[GoesStation]

Here is the sentence from the TOEIC test.

Transfer from Kyoto train station to the hotel of your choice.
=Transfer from Kyoto train station to the choice of your hotel.

That's not a correct statement. I think there's more context that would explain this. For example, is that a true-or-false question?

 

[Tae-Bbong-E]

That's not a correct statement. I think there's more context that would explain this. For example, is that a true-or-false question?

No, this sentence is only one of the sentences in whole paragraph.

Day 4. Hakone to Kyoto. The morning is at leisure to further enjoy Hakone National Park.
Transfer to the railway station for the journey to Kyoto. Transfer from Kyoto train station to the hotel of your choice.
Remainder of the day at leisure. (Breakfast).

In fact, it is not related to main questions of the TOEIC Test.
I think the writer or the teacher who wrote that explanation is wrong with the usage of "the something of one's choice".
Thank you.


By the way, this is a sentence as it is in Oxford dictionary.
I don’t like his choice of friends.

This usage is different to the above-mentioned one "the something of your choice", isn't it?

 

[jutfrank]

I can understand if members are confused by this thread. I'll try to clarify.

The sentence Transfer from Kyoto train station to the hotel of your choice is taken from a text from an English language exam (TOEIC). There are some comprehension questions to be answered related to this text.

It seems that somebody has incorrectly told Tae-Bong that the correct semi-fixed expression the _______ of one's choice can be rephrased, or perhaps understood, as the choice of one's _______ . Whoever told him that, or whoever wrote that, I can guarantee had nothing to do with the TOEIC exam. Tae-Bong has still failed to provide the source of this incorrect explanation, as I asked in post #4.

 

[Tae-Bbong-E]

Thank for your clarification.

The sentence Transfer from Kyoto train station to the hotel of your choice is taken from a text from an English language exam (TOEIC). There are some comprehension questions to be answered related to this text.

⇒ Yes

It seems that somebody has incorrectly told Tae-Bong that the correct semi-fixed expression the _______ of one's choice can be rephrased, or perhaps understood, as the choice of one's _______ .

⇒ Yes, somebody who is a TOEIC teacher told me that the choice of your hotel was possible but it has turned out to be wrong. So the source of this incorrect explanation is originally from the teacher in a private cram school so called 학원 in Korean. However as you can see this question posted by me, I am doubt of his explanation. That's why I've posted it.

Anyway now I got to know "the something of your choice ≠ the choice of your something."

But the only thing that I feel confused about is the example sentence from Oxford dictionary. Should I post a new question for it? I don't want you to waste your valuable time.

I don’t like his choice of friends.

 

[jutfrank]

But the only thing that I feel confused about is the example sentence from Oxford dictionary. Should I post a new question for it? I don't want you to waste your valuable time.

I don’t like his choice of friends.
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Could you say what exactly you feel confused about? Can you understand the meaning of the dictionary example? The pattern used there can be written as: one's choice of ______ .

 

[Tae-Bbong-E]

Could you say what exactly you feel confused about? Can you understand the meaning of the dictionary example? The pattern used there can be written as: one's choice of ______ .

Thank for your kind attention to me and your help.

I mean, when I look at the sentence, it almost looks like the pattern "the choice of your something". is used in it.
• I don’t like his choice of friends.

Thus if I change this sentence like this, it seems to me like both of the sentences are the same.
• I don't like friends of his choice.

But do you mean they are the same?

 

[Tarheel]

When you say you don't like "his choice of friends" what you are really saying is you don't like his friends. (He chose to be with those people.) You can't change the words around and have it mean the same thing (assuming it means anything at all).

 

[jutfrank]

.• I don't like friends of his choice.

That's wrong.

The two patterns are not the same. They have quite different uses. Don't confuse them.