I've stumbled upon "Sign up free" and "Sign up for free" on different websites.
"Sign up free" makes no sense to me. Is it correct? Which one should I use on my website? Thanks.
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Neither are grammatically correct sentences, but they have become everyday idiomatic expressions. A correct sentence would be 'Sign up, free of charge', which is the way that a conservative organisation would probably include it on a website. – WS2 Nov 29 '13 at 22:08
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free membership. – hildred Nov 29 '13 at 22:43
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If it's a clickable link or a label:
- Free sign-up
- Free registration
- Free enrollment
If it's in the narrative, though, don't write "sign up free" because it's ungrammatical; instead write "for free."
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"...free" can be considered a contraction of "...free of charge", which is not ungrammatical. "...for free" doesn't seem to make any sense. – DavidR Nov 30 '13 at 19:50
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Both are fine.
In "Sign up free." "Sign up" is a phrasal verb, "free" is an adverb modifying it, and the whole thing is a perfectly grammatical imperative sentence.
"Sign up for free." is identical except that it uses the phrase "for free", which has been handled in another question: Is the phrase "for free" correct?
