2017年4月15日 · 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 ...

Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry. It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round. Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though I wouldn't worry much about usage cases. (Most people wouldn't think ...

2011年9月16日 · The choice of prepositions depends upon the temporal context in which you're speaking. "On ~ afternoon" implies that the afternoon is a single point in time; thus, that temporal context would take the entire afternoon as one of several different afternoons, or in other words, one would use "on" when speaking within the context of an entire week.

My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it. Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google searching indicates that the bias is slightly towards swag. Can anybody provide any definite proof of the root of the word and which one is more correct?

2017年2月21日 · "Free" , alone, is hard to compute in English as an object, and probably wouldn't be one in any event. "Free" is just too much an adjective. Take one free . is better. Please take one . is fine . Free . would work as well. While "free", alone, has no article indicating a number, "free" alone creates no burden on the English speaker.

2012年2月25日 · I would be free any time Tuesday onward. vs. I would be free any time Tuesday onwards. Or are both correct/wrong? The spell checker in my browser says that onwards is wrong but I've heard people using it. (p.s: Sorry if this question is redundant. I searched here but couldn't find a related question)

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2015年12月31日 · definition: 1\break free of something or someone IDIOM: = escape (from), leave, withdraw from, extricate yourself from, free yourself of, disentangle yourself from • his inability to break free of his marriage. 2\break something free (from something) to force something to detach from something; to get something out of the hold of something else.