The phrase "a correction or a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to assess its correctness in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are discussing options for making changes or adjustments, but it needs to be part of a fuller sentence.
Example: "I need to decide whether to make a correction or a revision to the document."
Alternatives: "an amendment or a" or "a modification or a".
Call it a correction or a crash, and one that's bound to weed out art both good and bad.
For starters, Mr. Stovall said, "valuations in the market lead me to believe that this market decline will end up being either a correction or a very light bear market".
But each sign of economic trouble brought assurances from regulators, Mr. Paulson and others in the Bush administration that the housing sector was experiencing a "correction" or a "repricing of risk" that would work its way through the system without throwing the economy into a steep downturn.
The question is, are we facing a correction or a slump?
Something like Grasswire could serve the same role as a correction or a revision posted on an article.
The autumn sell-off knocked the benchmark S&P 500 index into a correction, or a drop of 10percentt from its all-time high, for the second time in nine months.
Sometimes an online amendment may be suitable, at other times it may be appropriate to publish a correction or an apology in print or broadcast a statement.
If Gawker wanted to make a change to the Sargent piece on Geithner (and that's a big "if"; I'm not 100% convinced they should've done anything one way or the other), that change should've been a correction or an extra note from the editor that appears on the same web page as the piece in question.
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The word "stet" is Latin for "let it stand", an editorial instruction to the printer reversing a correction or deletion made by an earlier, over-enthusiastic editor.
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