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What is is the difference between 'free of' and 'free from'?



 
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What is is the difference between 'free of' and 'free from'? #1 (permalink) Thu Jan 27, 2005 16:00 pm   What is is the difference between 'free of' and 'free from'?		  
Test No. incompl/elem-14 "Computers", question 10

Personally I'm looking forward to my holidays when I'll be ......... of it for two weeks!

(a) free
(b) freer
(c) freedom
(d) freed

Test No. incompl/elem-14 "Computers", answer 10

Personally I'm looking forward to my holidays when I'll be free of it for two weeks!

Correct answer: (a) free

Your answer was: incorrect
Personally I'm looking forward to my holidays when I'll be freed of it for two weeks!
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Free from #2 (permalink) Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:11 am   Free from		  
Yes, you can. It usually means free from an illness/infection.
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Questions #3 (permalink) Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:15 am   Questions		  
Hi Helen,

I notice you have been sending some detailed questions recently. Are you an English teacher? Tell us something about your interest in English.
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Free from #4 (permalink) Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:28 am   Free from		  
Alan wrote:
Yes, you can. It usually means free from an illness/infection.

Very Happy What the difference between "free from" to "free of" ? Very Happy
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Free from/of #5 (permalink) Sat Apr 02, 2005 13:10 pm   Free from/of		  
Both expressions mean that something is not there. Free from means that the status is such that the missing thing has never been there and free of means that something has now been removed.

Free from disease/infection means that it is clean/pure
Free of anxiety means that anxiety has now been removed
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Free from #6 (permalink) Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:59 am   Free from		  
Alan wrote:
Yes, you can. It usually means free from an illness/infection.


Could you tell me why "freed" is not possible here?
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Difference between 'free from' and 'freed from' #7 (permalink) Wed Jun 15, 2005 18:27 pm   Difference between 'free from' and 'freed from'		  
Well, you can be freed from something, which means one single action takes place which produces a result. In the given sentence freed from wouldn't work because the idea is that the person is free of something for two weeks. Clearly, the act of freeing that person wouldn't take two weeks, would it?
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