The phrase "work incorrectly" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when you want to describe an object or system that is working in a way that is different from what is expected or desired. For example: The machine was working incorrectly, so I had to reset it.
Correction: July 26 , 2001 Thursday An article in Arts & Ideas on July 14 about interpretations of Leonardo's "Last Supper" described the work incorrectly.
An article on Thursday about David Mamet's current plays on Broadway quoted incorrectly from comments by another playwright, Jon Robin Baitz, and in so doing summarized his view of Mr. Mamet's work incorrectly.
LAURIE J. FLYNN Correction: May 11 , 2000 Thursday An article in Business Day on Monday about a new electronic commerce business led by Dennis Hayes cited his pioneering technology work incorrectly.
Now researchers have shown how certain genetic defects in these patients cause heart cells to work incorrectly.
It is clear that the choice of a "good" reference point is critical: starting from a point that is along the scratch direction, but is not part of the scratch, makes the core detection process work incorrectly.
This is called a nonsense mutation, and produces truncated proteins that either work incorrectly or do not work at all, which can harm the organism.
Unfortunately, this period contained many data gaps due to non-operation of at least one transmitter or receiver or the receiver worked incorrectly.
After we submitted the paper, the Testing Center and the modeler of the Triple-S-Japan (J. D. Zechar) realized that the code of this model for all testing regions was working incorrectly.
One form of Ehlers Danlos syndrome is caused by ZIP13 transporters working incorrectly.
Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about the decision by striking teachers at nine Roman Catholic schools in the New York region to return to work referred incorrectly to action by a separate and larger union, the Federation of Catholic Teachers, which reached a settlement with the archdiocese in December.
We believe that sometime during the compilation and annotation process, the representative 'figure 2' previously shown in this work was incorrectly labeled.
