Definition of "choose" []

• To select from a number of possible alternatives; decide on and pick out. (verb-transitive)
• To prefer above others: chooses the supermarket over the neighborhood grocery store. (verb-transitive)
• To determine or decide: chose to fly rather than drive. (verb-transitive)
• To make a choice; make a selection: was used to doing as she chose. (verb-intransitive)
• Choose up To choose players and form sides or teams for a game, such as baseball or softball. (phrasal-verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I actually consider these games more interesting than those that only allow the player to do “good”, and while I typically choose to follow the “good” path, I like that I had to actually *choose* to follow it."
• "It may be true that we can act as we choose, but can we _choose_?"
• "Thus, in "I may write if I choose," "may write" is by some classified as in the potential mood, but in reality the phrase _I may write_ is an indicative one while the second clause, _if I choose_, is the expression of a condition upon which, not my liberty to write, depends, but my actual writing."