Last and possibly least this afternoon, here is a worksheet on using gratis and gratuitous properly in English prose. This is a half-page worksheet with ten modified cloze exercises to guide students toward understanding and use of these words. They are both adjectives: gratis means “without charge or recompense” and free”; gratuitous, on the other hand, means “given unearned or without recompense,” “not involving a return benefit, compensation, or consideration,” “costing nothing,” “free,” and “not called for by the circumstances.” This final sense of gratuitous is the definition this worksheet deals with.
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