The word 'behave' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used as a verb to describe someone's actions or conduct. Example: The children were told to behave themselves during the school assembly. This sentence means that the children were told to act in a respectful and appropriate manner during the school assembly.
"You can't just ask people to behave ethically just like that".
Dogs in summer bit by gnats or fleas or gadflies, jerking their snouts about, twitching their paws now here, now there, behave no otherwise".
During rehearsals, he's careful to insist that, within the limits of period etiquette, his courtiers and peasants behave like real individuals, rather than ballet ciphers.
When they observe happy children with complex needs who appear to behave and look well treated, do inspectors whack out generous "outstanding" judgments as a way of rewarding the school for relieving society of its guilt about what to do with disabled children, rather than basing the grading on whether students are being fully extended to learn?
She's made this screamingly mean movie to try to show people how not to behave.
With the stage managers now making exaggerated gestures at him, he added: "This is one of the moments when you are not responsible... when you behave like crazy.
The Washington Post was similarly emphatic in its own editorial, following graphic details of treatment meted out to detainees in CIA custody with a clear: "This is not how Americans should behave.
How people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.
These Roma are animals and they behave like animals".
I lacked the tools I needed to communicate and behave in loving, respectful ways; to do poly right.
Even though billions of taxpayers' euros had to be diverted into the banking system to ensure its survival the banks continue to behave disgracefully, refusing to loan to small and medium enterprises, harassing households with mortgage problems, overcharging customers for going into the red by merely a few euros, etc.
