All Right

I'm all right informal. Coping and not coping. A1 used to show that something is agreed , understood , or acceptable :.

All right, I'll lend you the money. All right, that's enough noise! Tell me if you start to feel sick , all right? If you insist.

I'd rather not go to Tricia's party if that's all right with you. Would it be all right if I came? She seems to think that it 's perfectly all right to break the law.

I thought they might cheer you up. It wasn't very expensive. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Polite expressions.

Grammar All right and alright. All right as an adjective. All right as an adverb. All right as a discourse marker.

UK informal used to greet someone at the same time as asking if they are well:. The movie was all right — not great , though.

Translations of all right in Chinese Traditional. Need a translator? Translator tool. Except or except for?

Expect , hope or wait? Experience or experiment? Fall or fall down? Far or a long way? Further but not farther. Age Comparison: nouns more money , the most points Gender Piece words and group words Nouns Nouns and gender Nouns and prepositions Nouns: compound nouns Nouns: countable and uncountable Nouns: form Nouns: forming nouns from other words Nouns: singular and plural.

Noun phrases Noun phrases: complements Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: two noun phrases together Noun phrases: uses.

Pronouns: possessive my , mine , your , yours , etc. Pronouns: reflexive myself , themselves , etc. Questions: interrogative pronouns what , who Relative pronouns Someone , somebody , something , somewhere That.

Above After as a preposition and conjunction After or afterwards as an adverb. Below referring forward in writing. Near as an adjective. Over as a preposition Over : typical errors Over as a prefix Over as an adjective: be over Over as an adverb.

To : the to -infinitive. Until as a conjunction. Within : space Within : time. As … as As if and as though As long as and so long as As well as As.

Comparison: clauses bigger than we had imagined Comparison: comparisons of equality as tall as his father Contrasts.

How Negation Neither, neither … nor and not … either Not Questions Questions: alternative questions Is it black or grey? Questions: two-step questions Questions: typical errors Questions: wh- questions Questions: yes-no questions Are you feeling cold?

Relative clauses Relative clauses referring to a whole sentence Relative clauses: defining and non-defining Relative clauses: typical errors.

Reported speech Reported speech: direct speech Reported speech: indirect speech. So and not with expect , hope , think , etc.

Such as. Cleft sentences It was in June we got married. Inversion Made from , made of , made out of , made with No sooner Not only … but also Word order and focus Word order: structures.

Downtoners Exclamations Hedges just Hyperbole. Area: length, width, depth and height Number Time.

Geographical places Names and titles: addressing people Nationalities, languages, countries and regions Place names Sexist language. Adverbs as short responses definitely , certainly.

British and American English Dialect Double negatives and usage Formal and informal language Newspaper headlines Register Slang Standard and non-standard language Swearing and taboo expressions.

Finite and non-finite verbs Table of irregular verbs Verb phrases Verbs Verbs and verb phrases: typical errors Verbs: basic forms Verbs: formation Verbs: multi-word verbs Verbs: types.

Be Be expressions be able to , be due to. Future: other expressions to talk about the future Future: be going to I am going to work? And yes, 'gift' is a verb.

We're intent on clearing it up. If you were listening when your English teacher said that, you probably learned that all right is the only way to write the word that is also sometimes spelled alright.

Pete Townshend preferred the tighter version when he wrote the lyrics to The Who's famous song, The Kids are Alright , and James Joyce thought alright was better in one instance out of 38 for Ulysses too.

If you are, you'll do as most writers do and stick to all right. It is by far the more common styling in published, edited text.

But alright does have its defenders, and instances of alright abound in informal writing. And what's not to like, really?

It's an efficient little version, and it looks right at home with a bunch of other common words— already, although, altogether, almost, always.

What's up with the lack of English-teacher love for alright? It's all about history: English spelling was fluid for a very long time, and the words all right, already, although, and the others had various forms over several hundred years—with spaces, hyphens, alternate vowels, one l , two l's —until the 18th century when they settled into the spellings that we recognize today.

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