Correctly

Definition

correct /kǝ'rekt/ adj ၁။ မွန္ေသာ။ မွန္ကန္ေသာ။ the correct answer/ approach/ procedure ❍ Do you have the correct time? ❍ The description is correct in every detail/ absolutely correct. ❍ ‘Am I correct in thinking that you are a writer?’ ‘ Yes, that's correct. ’ ၂။ (အေန) မွန္ေသာ။ သင့္ေတာ္ေသာ။ a very correct young lady ❍ Such casual dress would not be correct for a formal occasion. v ၁။ (က) (မွန္ေအာင္) ျပင္သည္၊ ျပင္ေပးသည္။ correct sb's spelling ❍ Please correct my pronunciation if I go wrong. ❍ Spectacles correct faulty eyesight ❍ ‘It was in April—no, May,’ he said, correcting himself. (ခ) စာ၊ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း စသည္ ျပင္ေပးသည္။ correct an essay/ a test. ၂။ အမွားကို ေထာက္ျပသည္။ ‘Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this last year's brochure?’ ❍ Yes, you're right—I stand corrected (ie I accept that I made a mistake). correctly adv : forecast/ guess correctly ❍ He believed, perhaps correctly, that … ❍ behave very correctly. correctness n [U]: question the correctness of the court's decision.

Examples

1. The first person to give the correct answer wins the contest.
2. Make sure you use the correct address.
3. If my calculations are correct
4. we should arrive in exactly 17 minutes.
5. A correct diagnosis
6. A grammatically correct sentence
7. My father was always very formal and correct.
8. She guessed my age correctly.
9. They refused
10. quite correctly
11. to give us this information.