Incorrectly can be categorized as an adverb.
Adverb |
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| incorrectly - in an inaccurate manner; "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong" | ||
| incorrectly - in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" |
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| 1. | adv. | He decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly. | |
| 2. | adv. | Hopefully he didn't spel anyting incorrectly. | |
| 3. | adv. | Had a horrible experience with a manager here, Rachel McInnis, she was rude, inconsiderate and did not do the right thing for an item that was marked incorrectly... | |
| 4. | adv. | He answered incorrectly. | |
| 5. | adv. | He broke the machine by using it incorrectly. | |
| 6. | adv. | In informal, everyday speech, the word "literally" is often used incorrectly as an intensifier. | |
| 7. | adv. | I still haven't received your e-mail. Perhaps you wrote down my e-mail address incorrectly? | |
| 8. | adv. | Tom answered incorrectly. | |
| 9. | adv. | If there is one thing history has taught us, it's that we often incorrectly predict the future. | |
| 10. | adv. | Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected. | |
| 11. | adv. | If you swim incorrectly the judges will disqualify you. | |
| 12. | adv. | You are using the word incorrectly. | |
| 13. | adv. | You're using the word incorrectly. | |
| 14. | adv. | I think Tom did that incorrectly. | |
| 15. | adv. | Sometimes Tom uses the preterite incorrectly. |
| Sentence | |
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| adv. | |
| He decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly. |
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| Hopefully he didn't spel anyting incorrectly. |
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| Had a horrible experience with a manager here, Rachel McInnis, she was rude, inconsiderate and did not do the right thing for an item that was marked incorrectly... |
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| He answered incorrectly. | |
| He broke the machine by using it incorrectly. | |
| In informal, everyday speech, the word "literally" is often used incorrectly as an intensifier. | |
| I still haven't received your e-mail. Perhaps you wrote down my e-mail address incorrectly? | |
| Tom answered incorrectly. | |
| If there is one thing history has taught us, it's that we often incorrectly predict the future. | |
| Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected. | |
| If you swim incorrectly the judges will disqualify you. | |
| You are using the word incorrectly. | |
| You're using the word incorrectly. | |
| I think Tom did that incorrectly. | |
| Sometimes Tom uses the preterite incorrectly. | |