[Vocabulary] With my free will

[Turkish is the best]

I decided that with my free will.
I wanted that with my free will.
Are these sentences correct?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Neither of them are natural English.

 

[emsr2d2]

The second has an unnatural collocation of "want" and "free will".

"I decided that of my own free will" or "I did that of my own free will" work for the first.

 

[tzfujimino]

I've read/heard "of one's own accord".
I think it means the same as "of one's own free will".

 

[Turkish is the best]

So which one is more useful in real life?

 

[Eckaslike]

"Of my own free will", is probably the most frequently used. However, "of my own accord", is still well known and used reasonably often, so you could use either one for variety.

http://tinyurl.com/pzz9dty

 

[tzfujimino]

I've just changed "one's" to "my" in 'of one's own accord':
https://books.google.com/ngrams/gra...y own free will;,c0;.t1;,of my own accord;,c0

 

[lotus888]

I decided that with my free will.
I wanted that with my free will.
Are these sentences correct?

Try:

I made the decision based on my own free will.

My decision was based on my own free will.



--lotus

 

[emsr2d2]

I find "based on" much less natural than "of" there.

 

[Tdol]

So do I- based on is used with the thinking and reasoning, which is not the same. You free will implies that you made the decision without outside interference or pressure.

 

[lotus888]

If "based on" doesn't work, try:

I acted on my own accord. (as others had intimated)


--lotus

 

[Matthew Wai]

How about 'I made the decision of my own volition'?

Not a teacher.

 

[mawes12]

Or can you say "I did it how I chose to do it"?