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So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which doesn't correspond neatly to freedom of) is used to indicate the absence of something: this shampoo is free of parabens. Therefore: The people were free from the barbaric dictator. The mashed potatoes were free of lumps. I wish I could get rid of this ...
Because free by itself can function as an adverb in the sense "at no cost," some critics reject the phrase for free. A phrase such as for nothing, at no cost, or a similar substitute will often work better. Yet while it's true that for free is a casualism and a severely overworked ad cliche, the expression is far too common to be called an ...
Yes; I'd say that even in headlinese, 'Take free' sounds very unnatural in BrE. – Edwin Ashworth. Feb 21, 2017 at 11:04. "Take free" gets a score of about 100 on my (quite sensitive) 和製英語 meter. – curious-proofreader. Feb 22, 2017 at 0:35. No. It sounds like a bad translation: Jinglish. – Greybeard.
'The popcorn is free of charge when you purchase a ticket', the opposite would be e.g. 'The popcorn comes at a cost', 'The popcorn isn't free', 'The popcorn cost $10', 'You have to pay for the popcorn' or, simply, 'The popcorn isn't free'.
When is the suffix "-less" used, and when is the suffix "-free" used? My initial assumption was that "-free" is used when the absence of something is good, such as "care-free", and "-less" is used when the absence of something is bad, such as "careless". But while looking up -less in Wiktionary, I came across words like "blameless" and ...
Gratis versus libre is the distinction between two meanings of the English adjective "free"; namely, "for zero price" (gratis) and "with few or no restrictions" (libre). The ambiguity of "free" can cause issues where the distinction is important, as it often is in dealing with laws concerning the use of information, such as copyright and patents.
In your example, "free" and "brave" are often called "collective adjectives" or "adnouns". The part of speech ascribed to these words is usually "adjective", and they are used in sentences as "nominals". Being nominals, they may function as subjects, objects, complements, etc. Sometimes people call these words nouns, but in my experience, those ...
Eating a gluten-free pizza made up of eight slices would give you around 120g carbs, whereas this amount would be doubled if eating a non-gluten-free pizza. — Is Gluten Free Pizza Lower In Carbs? (That's also abbreviated as " non-GF ".)
The examples given are "toll-free number" and "accident-free driver." Specifically, in the construction you listed, the examples are: "The number is toll-free." and "The driver is accident-free." Therefore, "The program is error-free." would be the proper construction under the Chicago Manual though other style-guides may say otherwise.
Bartlett Whiting, Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings (1989) cites instances of "free, white and twenty-one" as a proverbial phrase going back to 1932, in Cecil Gregg, The Body Behind the Bar: A Tale of Inspector Higgins: "She's free, white, and twenty-one." (Oddly enough, Gregg was a British writer and this mystery novel was published in ...