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right/correct/tick mark
“Right” (adjective) means ‘something morally good; someone suitable, perfect or good for something; conforming to truth or facts; correct; the opposite of ‘wrong’’; (verb) is ‘to make some wrong thing or wrong person correct; to put something, such as a boat, in the correct or straight position or direction; exactly, just’,
e.g.
It seems only right to apologise when you have done something wrong to somebody.
She is the right person for our plan.
She thought she could right all the wrong doings of other people.
The boat was caught in the cyclone and was almost capsized, but the experienced fisherman righted it.
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raised their right hands
“Right” (adjective) means ‘on or belonging to the side of the body that is away from the heart and is stronger in most people; on or by, or in the direction of this side; the opposite of ‘left’’,
e.g.
He extended his right hand and shook hands with her.
She turned to her right and walked away.
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voters using their right to vote
“Right” (noun) is ‘morally correct or just, and lawful claim; something to which one has the power or privilege to ask for, or say that something or someone is theirs’,
e.g.
In some societies the girl child has no right to her father’s property; only the boy child enjoys that right.
Boys and girls below the age of eighteen (minors) have no right to vote in any election.
{“Rights” (noun & always in plural form) is ‘the privileges and claims a person or a group or all the people of a place or a class can have or must have’: women’s rights, equal rights, human rights, civil rights, etc.}
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girl trying to write something
“Write” (verb ~~~ write – wrote – written – writing; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here) is ‘to make or form marks, such as characters or symbols, on a surface, such as stone, paper or on mud blocks, with the help of a tool, such as chalk, a pen, pencil or even a stylus, held in hand’,
e.g.
You write your name on this piece of paper in pen.
He writes sensational books on drug abuse. She wrote me a letter.
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a wheelright making wheels
“Wright” (noun, with the letters ‘w’ and ‘gh’ silent — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here) is ‘a maker of something, such as a cart, wheel, or doing something as a profession, or a trade, etc.’,
{‘Cartwright’, ‘wheelwright’, and ‘playwright’ are common words with ‘wright’ that we often come across, and these days, the word ‘wright’ is also found more commonly in the male names though those men do not make carts or wheels any more!}
e.g.
My neighbour is a wheelwright.
One of her uncles was a playwright.
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Common Errors:
We all normally forget that animals too have a right of life. [wrong]
We all normally forget that animals too have a right to live. [right]
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