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correctly Adverb

— If you do something correctly, then you do it as it is supposed to be done, doing it in a correct way.

correctly

— adverb (= right) in an accurate manner the flower had been correctly depicted by his son he guessed right

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Topics correctly topics

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States Quality Good

Right, proper

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right properly correctly by the book

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Simple sentences

I was afraid I might not be able to do it correctly.

Did I understand correctly that you don't want to talk about that subject?

If you're going to fiddle with sentences, at least do it correctly.

Check that your username and password are written correctly.

By that, Boeing means that there may also have been other problems, but that an accident could have been avoided if the crew had done their job correctly.

I was able to answer the question correctly.

First, they should have right ideas of things, ideas that are based on careful observation, and understand causes of effects and their significance correctly.

Only I could answer the question correctly.

Please address your mail clearly and correctly.

If I remember correctly, I think we have to turn left at the next corner.

Everyone can help ensure that sentences sound correct, and are correctly spelled.

If I remember correctly, Tom sold his car to Mary for just 500 dollars.

Did I understand that correctly?

Whoever wants to learn to ride a horse must first learn to mount and unmount correctly.

Yes, he is an inventor, if I understood correctly.

Emily answered the question correctly.

Did you read the sign correctly?

I answered the questions correctly.

If I remember correctly, that's the song Tom sang at Mary's wedding.

You have only one chance to answer correctly.

It is rather sad to see people who can't even use their mother tongue correctly.

Movie subtitles

Master Kirihara! Did I hear correctly that you were promised a position. in the special zone involving the Sakuradite mining rights?

If I understand you correctly, you sound almost indecent.

Please, madame, I believe in doing things correctly.

If I overheard correctly. the argument is whether or not this dog can pull a thousand pounds.

Do you keep the accounts correctly?

If I'm hearing you correctly, you're basically calling me a morally bankrupt, evil being.

If I read his character correctly, he means to be severe upon us.

I trust that it's engraved correctly.

The only thing I thought I could care for deeply was a correctly constructed sentence.

You suppose correctly.

I've tried to answer correctly.

But simply to be sure that I understand you correctly.

Yes, a sort of lymphatism, if I remember correctly.

If I remember correctly you wanted to live, finally.

Had I described the grand duke correctly. you might not have come here.

If I remember correctly. The policy was taken out on the 5th of March, 1935.

You did remember correctly.

If I remember my history correctly, Caesar got over it.

If I remember correctly, she was a woman with a great name.

If I understand you correctly you want to leave me.

Senor, if I understand you correctly, and I do, even so, you will have to register in the proper manner.

Yes, I'll be sure to get the information correctly.

In other words, all the figures of name number four are written backwards and read from right to left until we reverse the slide when they read correctly from left to right.

Show me again correctly, Hannes.

I want to see that you serve this meal correctly.

Did these gentlemen correctly identify themselves?

You heard correctly. This is the time of year- Gabby, uh.

YOU WOULD HAVE SPELLED CORRECTLY.

I couldn't find any place in this stupid town to make it correctly, so I made it myself.

Jeeves, am I hearing correctly?

A brandy, if I remember correctly.

You answer them correctly, maybe I won't knock your teeth out.

And furthermore, I think he would prefer to see you correctly dressed for the occasion.

He remembered them correctly in court.

If I recall correctly, it's either to the right or left.

The only thing, if I remember correctly, is that she wanted to be alone.

News and current affairs

This is neither a correct description nor a useful terminology for terrorist acts, which are more correctly described as criminal.

It has been correctly said over and again that Arafat was a mixed blessing for his people.

He said that if people thought about it correctly, they might well conclude that they should save half their income.

To be sure, investors must differentiate between eurozone governments, in order to ensure that risk is correctly priced.

If there is no double counting, and if the incidents included in the data were reported correctly, their tally represents a minimum number, because media reports may not be comprehensive.

This would be a reasonable conclusion if financial markets always, or even usually, priced assets correctly.

So why should we believe that the markets have been correctly pricing the risk of Greek, Irish, or Portuguese debt?

But even when genetic tests correctly predict that a person is at risk, there may be little or no benefit from that knowledge.

Leading economic columnist Martin Wolf of the Financial Times distinguished himself again by warning, stubbornly and correctly, that the US stock market would eventually reverse to more normal historical levels.

Markets are generally efficient if companies' revenues correctly reflect all the benefits that their output bestows on third parties, while their costs reflect all the harms.

Sarkozy correctly assumed that managers of publicly-traded firms, much like politicians, are public figures who should be held to a minimum ethical standard of behavior.

If the government has superior information and analysis, and correctly assesses that public fear is not justified, then of course it makes sense to take advantage of the information - by issuing more debt, for example.

But a high standard of fidelity to the truth is needed in the media; otherwise, debates become too distorted for citizens to evaluate correctly their meaning.

I appreciate that close cooperation and partnership with member states are required, and I am ready to work with them in whatever way I can to help them to transpose and apply EU law correctly.

If handled correctly, however, the crisis may yet raise the esteem of the European Union and its institutions.

Implemented correctly, these treaties could become a hopeful precedent for the entire European Union.

The predictive significance of oil prices is indeed impressive, but only as a contrary indicator: Falling oil prices have never correctly predicted an economic downturn.

US President Barack Obama correctly argues that this is an occasion to set the rules for trade and investment in the twenty-first century.

Besides, these countries correctly argue that the tradeoff between action on climate change and poverty reduction is more compelling for them at their level of per capita income, unless they can access newly emerging technologies at low cost.

But if we are to sustain our species into the distant future, we need to make big decisions correctly.

These funds' investors believe - correctly - that they have complete liquidity.

Perhaps they were just lucky this year, but their divestment decision makes long-term sense, because it correctly anticipates the future policy shift away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon energy.

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