Sentence examples similar to correct- from inspiring English sources

The correct figure is 74%.

The accountant's fees claimed were for preparing his office accounts to ensure the correct amount of tax was paid.

This article was amended on 16 April 2015 to correct a quote from Nick Clegg.

"We have to correct that".

"You are correct," he wrote back, two days later.

I'd read the lyrics of songs I liked, lots of Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, and got my friends to correct me when I spoke poorly.

The film is correct that Disney gave Travers script approval; it was apparently the only time he had ever granted this right to anyone outside his company, except for government censors during the second world war.

Billing it as an alternative to "lame-stream" TV and partnered with new media group Tapp, Palin promises to tackle ideas "Washington doesn't want you to hear" and to "cut through the media's politically correct filter".

And so, seeing an opportunity to help tackle it, Dewey set up a Twitter bot "to quietly, politely correct misgendering errors".

But when done the correct way, the blood parameters for the heart look beautiful".

Why do pedants correct mistakes as if affronted – as if a family member had been insulted?