subsets of a generating set of a free group

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Is it true that, given any free group $F$ and any set $S\subseteq F$ which generates $F$, there is a subset $T\subseteq S$ which is a free generating set for $F$?

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Notice that $\{2,3\}$ is a generator set of the free group $\mathbb{Z}$, but no proper subset generates the group.