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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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Parallel relationship

Still, skydiving successfully from, say, 9,000 feet involves more than courage and luck; it requires real skill. When a skydiver takes the plunge, he or she begins to free fall, traveling through the air with the parachute tightly packed and no way to control the speed.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]

I'd like to know in "to free fall" if "free" is used as an adverb.
And I'd like to know if "to free fall", "traveling through" and "no way to control" is in parallel relationship.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I'd like to know in "to free fall" if "free" is used as an adverb. Yes, although "to free fall" is effectively a set compound. Normal modification of "fall" by "free" would result in "fall free" (which is one of those debatable adjective/adverb cases, I guess).

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  • park sang joon I'd like to know in "to free fall" if "free" is used as an adverb.
  • Yes, although "to free fall" is effectively a set compound.
  • Normal modification of "fall" by "free" would result in "fall free" (which is one of those debatable adjective/adverb cases, I guess).
  • The uses of the two are different.
  • park sang joon And I'd like to know if "to free fall", "traveling through" and "no way to control" is in parallel relationship.
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park sang joonI'd like to know in "to free fall" if "free" is used as an adverb.
Yes, although "to free fall" is effectively a set compound. Normal modification of "fall" by "free" would result in "fall free" (which is one of those debatable adjective/adverb cases, I guess). The uses of the two are different.
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