Modifying Another Word

• always: The two cross-linked helices are always right-handed, twisting in the same direction as a normal screw.

• mostly: In addition, and perhaps more surprisingly, Dr. Westergaard has shown that in making tools capuchin monkeys are mostly right-handed.

• actually: I'm actually right-handed but I do some things with the left.

• all: Until I got my own bowling ball, I had to use the ones provided at the bowling alley, which were all right-handed.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• play: Many children studying guitar were confronted with difficulties through their handedness, with 49 % of left-handers being encouraged to play the guitar right-handed.

• do: Over the years, I learned to do many things right-handed simply because I couldn't get equipment to work correctly.

Modifies a noun

• batsman: A right-handed batsman, he played his club cricket for Broughton, Manchester.

• scissors: Struggling with buttons and right-handed scissors, or constantly smudging the ink on my homework - well, that can be pretty annoying.

• helix: Each strand is a left-handed helix twisted on itself, but the three strands are twisted into a larger right-handed triple helix.

• track: He revealed the hurdler with six wins from seven starts when faced with distances below three miles, a right-handed track and fast ground.

• player: A Mandolin is normally rested in the lap and for a right-handed player, the fretboard and tuner point out to the left.

• person: Probably by a right-handed person from behind with the victim kneeling at the time of the attack.

Used with adjective complement

• play: At age 13, Weir wrote to Jack Nicklaus asking whether he should switch to playing right-handed.

• write: The School tired to make me write right-handed for years.

• knit: I knit right-handed, but find it very awkward.

• bear: Born right-handed, he lost his arm in a childhood accident when he fell off the running board of a truck.