The phrase "adapt to someone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability to adjust or change one's behavior, approach, or methods in response to another person's needs or preferences.
Example: "In order to work effectively as a team, we must learn to adapt to each other's working styles."
Alternatives: "adjust to someone" or "accommodate someone".
According to Forbes.com blogger Meghan Casserly, it's all about independence -- the freedom to make their own rules instead of adapting to someone else's, particularly a workday defined by clock and location.
Feel the whiplash as she lurches from describing to preaching without so much as a paragraph break: "These were among my early lessons in how hard it is to be old, how long everything takes, how much some of it hurts, and how a loving caregiver must stop moving at the warp speed of a New York minute and adapt to the pace of someone who is disabled, making it look natural and effortless.
The old saying "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it - Does it still make a sound?" can be adapted to: "If someone does something interesting on the internet and nobody is around to talk about it - Did it still make an impact?" And what can we expect from your presentation at Activate 2010?
Sacks understood our frequent ability to adapt, and emphasized that the capacity for someone to adapt to a particular condition — amnesia, blindness, deafness, migraines, phantom-limb syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, and countless other conditions — cannot be known from the outset.
In contrast, many of their sons and daughters did not, and must now quickly learn how to adapt to not only living with someone, but living with a total stranger -- often in a small space.
Work adjustment describes how easily someone can adapt to their working environment, which might include factors such as work content, relationship with co-workers, management style of the boss, adaptation to environment differences, working compatibility, and working regulations.
She's not someone who will adapt to certain roles because she has to.
"You very rarely see someone step up and adapt to Test rugby as quickly as Anton has done," said Cane, who misses the Australia match because of a hamstring injury, of his Chiefs team-mate.
