Accepting responsibility

The idea

Take responsibility for introduces the duty, action or problem a person accepts. A noun or an -ing form can follow for.

Examples

• Maya took responsibility for the mistake in the report.
• Our team will take responsibility for organizing the event.
• The driver took full responsibility for the accident.
• Each student takes responsibility for their own learning.
• The manager agreed to take responsibility for the budget.
• We must take shared responsibility for keeping the park clean.

Watch out

Avoid make responsibility: the natural combination is take responsibility.

Try it yourself

1. Choose the missing word. I can ___ responsibility for the keys. (take / takes)

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   take

   take follows the modal can in its base form.

2. Choose the missing word. The chef ___ responsibility for the delay yesterday. (took / takes)

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   took

   took signals that the chef accepted responsibility yesterday.

3. Choose the missing word. They took responsibility ___ feeding the animals. (for / of)

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   for

   for connects the responsibility to feeding the animals.

Use it today

Describe a duty you are willing to take responsibility for.