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BAYRAM ERDEM Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

The Joy Of Painting

Hello!

Could you please help me to rewrite the following sentence correctly?

''Right at this very moment, I'm having a *right lunch and watching a 1983 made programme, The Joy of Painting by painter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross. Is it weird?''

* http://www. oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/right_1
(7th meaning)
  

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BAYRAM ERDEM Could you please help me to rewrite the following sentence correctly? What do you think might be wrong with it?

  • BAYRAM ERDEM Could you please help me to rewrite the following sentence correctly?
  • What do you think might be wrong with it?
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BAYRAM ERDEMCould you please help me to rewrite the following sentence correctly?
What do you think might be wrong with it?
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Mister MicawberWhat do you think might be wrong with it?
I'm not sure if it's correct to use 'right' in that sentence or the overall sentence structure makes sense?
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As an American, I find it odd, but as the dictionary shows, it's British.

Did you notice that it said "especially disapproving"? That leads me to believe that "a right lunch" would not be a common way to use it, given the examples were about being "a right idiot" or "making a right mess."
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BAYRAM ERDEM''Right at this very moment, I'm having a *right lunch
That sounds most unnatural to this speaker of BrE.
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Right can be used colloquially as an intensifier before an adjective, which could be positive or negative ("I'm enjoying a right good lunch"), or before a noun, usually emphasizing a negative statement ("He's a right idiot!"). A right lunch doesn't make sense to me in either AmE or BrE.
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BAYRAM ERDEMI'm having a *right lunch
I read it as a very big or delicious lunch when one is hungry. I know the adjective but don't use it, so I didn't see any oddity in using it with 'lunch'.

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