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# correction

«correction» in Mova's school dictionary: **a change that makes something right that was wrong** — 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

noun (a correction, corrections)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A correction is a change that makes something right that was wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#m1)

2) Correction is the act of putting mistakes right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#m2)

3) (formal) Correction can mean punishment, as in old prisons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school pupils do corrections: they fix mistakes marked by the teacher. Correction fluid or tape covers mistakes. In maths, checking and correction of answers is good practice. Phrases: make corrections, do your corrections, correction tape.

### examples

- Do your corrections in green pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#x1)
- The teacher made a correction to my spelling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#x2)
- There were three corrections on the board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#x3)
- Use correction tape to cover the mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#x4)
- The newspaper printed a correction the next day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#x5)
- She took the correction kindly and tried again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/correction/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: correct; adjective: correct, corrective. In maths, a correction changes a wrong answer to the right one; always show your working so the mistake can be found.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [Using a bot to find spelling mistakes is useful if you learn from the corrections.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/13/)
- ["Market correction" means a big fall in prices on the markets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/19/)
- [A correction is a notice fixing a mistake in a news story; admitting mistakes shows a news source cares about accuracy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/15/)
- [In vain have I smitten your children — they received no correction; your sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.56/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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