
"Free of" vs. "Free from" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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 …
orthography - Free stuff - "swag" or "schwag"? - English Language ...
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 …
etymology - Origin of the phrase "free, white, and twenty-one ...
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 …
How to ask about one's availability? "free/available/not busy"?
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 …
On Saturday afternoon or in the Saturday afternoon?
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 …
prepositions - Does "until [date]" mean "before that date"?
2011年8月16日 · This is not good English. Either it was written by somebody for whom English is not a native language, in which case I wouldn't necessarily conclude anything about his …
meaning - What is free-form data entry? - English Language
If you are creating a column for free-form data entry, such as a notes column to hold data about customer interactions with your company’s customer service department, then varchar will …
"Onward" vs "Onwards" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
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 …
In a tournament, do I get a "by", a "bye", or a "buy"?
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