These are word's grammars related to right. Click on any word to go to its word's detail page. Or, go to the definition of right.
We use both right and rightly as adverbs, but they are used in different ways and with different meanings.
Tags are either questions, statements or imperatives added to a clause to invite a response from the listener:
Tags consist of one of the auxiliary verbs be, do or have, or the main verb be, or a modal verb, plus a subject, which is most commonly a pronoun:
Question tags turn statements into yes-no questions. There are two types.
A tag after an imperative clause softens the imperative a little. The tag verb is most commonly will but we can also use would, could, can and won’t:
We can use a statement tag to emphasise or reinforce an affirmative statement. The tag is also affirmative. They typically invite the listener to agree or sympathise in some way, or to offer a parallel comment. Statement tags are very informal:
We can use right and yeah in very informal situations instead of question tags:
