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Tue 14 Jan, 2014 06:33 am
Situation:
A person is being invited, verbally, by others to be the president etc. of a student body; if he wants to refuse, what should he say? Can this?:
-Your invitation is greatly appreciated, but I'm afraid I can't take on this responsibility.
Even if it can, I find it too email-like. What natural English should he use in conversational English?
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:Even if it can, I find it too email-like. What natural English should he use in conversational English?
Your example reply is not at all "email-like". (Why do you think that?) It is slightly formal, but not excessively so. It is fine. Maybe you could avoid the passive voice and say "I greatly appreciate your invitation, but I'm afraid I can't take on this responsibility."
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