If I ask my friend why can “right” be used as a short for “right now”?
Is it correct to say “I left got an up vote? to mean “I got an up vote right now?”
I know I can say “GIVEN 5 UP-VOTES” though would right in a sentence like that be understood to mean right now?
What is happening with the world today?
Short answer: “No”
Long answer: “Right” here is an adjective modifying “now” Can you use adjective and omit the noun? Is it like trying to abbreviate “The stove is very hot” as “The stove is very”? What would the logical response be “Very what?” “Right”
is an intensifier, like “very,” but it is an adjective which modifies a noun. (not a negative adjective.) The meaning (in English) of Teach If to mean “here” are very limited. If you could spell ‘right now’ or ‘right here’, would it be acceptable?
Right, is sometimes used as a synonym for “very”. Generally speaking, “Right” is a synonym of “very”, i.e., right to the right (in an image), but “Night” is not a synonym of “very”. In linguistics, adjectives can be modified. Like at the end of the poem “Night before Christmas” where Santa Claus is described as a “right jolly old elf” What is the name of the title of a public servant in a government bureaucracy: “Right Reverend”/Red Reverend for a high-ranking presbytery officer and “Right Honorable” This uses are the most obsolete.
If you are a child, you are confused because “right” is used with some specific idioms: “right there”, “right up”, “right down” etc. If you say “I’ll be right there”, that means “I will arrive soon. Similarly “I’ll be right up” and “I’ll be right down” mean “I will soon be up” or “I will soon be down”, usually meaning I will come to a higher or lower floor in a building or some such. What are idioms that you can’t pick apart really to make sense of them?
I am seeing that “right there” can also mean “in that specific place”, similar to “right here”. I will be there right now, or it can mean I will be at that specific spot, depending on context. So “I will be right there” can mean “I will arrive soon” as I mentioned above, or it can mean “I will be there in that specific place”. Have you finished getting dressed? The Devil… I almost. I’ll be right there in the moment. Is she going to be coming down stairs soon?” “Where will you be standing when the ceremony begins? I’ll be right there I will.” (pointing to the
spot).
