Timeline for "a right way" or "in a right way"?
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 4:03 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 9:00 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 13, 2019 at 17:55 | answer | added | user68365 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 5:07 | comment | added | A C | To echo the sentiments above, there's usually only one right way, so it's the right way, not a right way. Seeing "a right way" immediately tells me I'm dealing with a non-native speaker. It's definitely idiomatic to omit the "in" in this construction -- "you are not using the knife the right way" sounds fine and might even be preferable. Like @katatahito, I'll leave the grammatical analysis to an answerer. For what it's worth, I'd personally just use "correctly" and avoid the whole thing: "you're not using the knife correctly" | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 3:32 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | As per the above comment, I have never heard using it a right way, only using it the right way. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 2:28 | comment | added | katatahito | Usually I would replace a with the in both cases. In which case, full example makes perfect sense, but I am not sure if it is technically grammatical. | |
| Jul 24, 2019 at 1:35 | history | asked | user96188 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |