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# correct

«correct» in Mova's school dictionary: **right, true, or without mistakes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective; verb (correct, corrects, corrected, correcting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Correct means right, true, or without mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#m1)

2) Correct can mean proper or suitable, like the correct way to behave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#m2)

3) To correct means to find and fix mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#m3)

4) A teacher corrects work by marking what is right and wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and spelling «correct» is the right answer; teachers correct homework and you correct your own mistakes. Phrases: «the correct answer», «correct me if I'm wrong», «politically correct», «correct the mistakes».

### examples

- That is the correct answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x1)
- Please correct your spelling mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x2)
- The teacher corrected our tests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x3)
- Is this the correct way to hold a pencil? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x4)
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it Tuesday? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x5)
- She got nine out of ten correct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x6)
- Glasses correct poor eyesight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x7)
- Now he thought his opinion was evidently correct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/#x8)

### note

Opposite: incorrect or wrong. Adverb: correctly; noun: correction. Spelling: double r. In maths «9 out of 10 correct» means 9 right and 1 wrong.

### In the corpora

- [A person with dementia may mix up names or think it is years ago; correcting them sharply can upset them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/15/)
- [Corrections are usually much smaller than the false stories they correct, so be slow to believe a shocking first story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/8/)
- ["Breaking news" means news that has only just come in; early details and numbers are often wrong and get corrected later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/11/)
- [When a bot is asked "are you sure?", it sometimes gives up a correct answer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/16/)
- [So when you are wrong you can be corrected, and when you don't know you can say so.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «correct» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correct/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.