"On" in my sentence

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

Is it wrong to use "on" in my sentence?
"Go straight on until you see the traffic lights, then turn on the right."

 

[GoesStation]

Is it wrong to use "on" in my sentence?
"Go straight on until you see the traffic lights, then turn [STRIKE]on the[/STRIKE] right."

With my correction, it may be okay in British English. We wouldn't use the preposition in the States.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Anything's better than the directions I used to get in Rhode Island, e.g.:

- Go left at the rotary.
- Go halfway to the end of Lonsdale Boulevard and make a right.
- Turn left where the liquor store used to be.

 

[Phaedrus]

We wouldn't use the preposition in the States.

We'd use "on" if "go straight" were replaced with "continue":

Continue on until you see the traffic lights; then . . . .

 

[Phaedrus]

GS was talking about the second 'on'.

Ah, yes. I am talking about the first. I'd replace "Go straight on," which I personally find very unidiomatic, with "Go straight" or "Continue on."

 

[GoesStation]

GS was talking about the second 'on'.

No, I'd struck that out. I was talking about the first one. We Americans don't use the expression "straight on" as it's used in the sample sentence.

 

[Rachel Adams]

We wouldn't in BrE.

In BrE would you use the second "on" before "the right"? Is it "Turn on the right" or "Turn right"?

 

[Rover_KE]

Turn right.