corretto Englisch:

proper person

When suddenly faced with a dangerous situation, hold your horses - make sure of the proper action, then act.

Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses.

Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.

A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can."

She got herself through college telling people their fortunes as a phony psychic. She didn't even have a proper Tarot deck, but her clients didn't know the difference.

Just because it's a "safe day" I'm not going to make out like monkeys without protection. Isn't it the duty of loving sex to take proper care of contraception?

There were so few proper members in the badminton club that it was half-way between dead and 'on break'.

You have just won a prize of $5000 in a California state safety competition for proper use of your seatbelt.

1. It is absolutely the proper thing for my kind of appearance. / 2. Look, I don't think this is the proper occasion... / 3. There's a proper young man for my daughter. / 4. Mama finds it very proper and practical.

If everyone could pay close attention, please. I will now auscultate the patient. Make sure to note the proper procedure because you all will be practicing this tomorrow.

Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!

Your English is grammatically correct, but sometimes what you say just doesn't sound like what a native speaker would say.

Correct!

The government is looking for ways to monitor online chatter about political issues and correct what it perceives as misinformation.

He's a classic case that the more ignorant people are the more sure they are that they are correct.

Things like grammars that can be called absolutely correct do not exist anywhere.

I have decided to write ten sentences in Spanish each day. I'm sure that Rocío will be very happy to correct them.

That's correct. In Japanese, ウエートレス corresponds both to the English "waitress" and "weightless". However, "waitress" is the more usual meaning.

A scientist had to know how to ask the correct question and to state it so clearly that the answer would be, in effect, a definite yes or no, not "maybe".

The correct setting for silverware is the fork on the left side of the plate and on the right side the knife then the spoon.

I know that formula was correct. / 2. I usually always courteous and correct.

Don't change sentences that are correct. You can, instead, submit natural-sounding alternative translations.

There is a world of difference between, "somehow being understood" and "using correct English."

Woe betide the child who speaks correct English; he will be the laughing-stock of his classmates.

You're an arrogant dirty foreigner who claims your dictionary is correct even though you don't understand the nuances of Japanese.

Winning the competition is important. However, fair play is more important. You need to understand that winning is not the most important thing.

Fair competition is necessary for the healthy growth of industry.

Fair enough!

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

I had a dream last night, about silk and fine cloth or about equality and fair trial.

Our land abounds in nature’s gifts, Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair!

In joyful strains then let us sing: “Advance Australia Fair!”

We insist that during the next three days you make decisions which are fair to all generations and which show an active concern for the environment.

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

I will not say play fair but I would wish that you refrain from indiscreet acts.

Aiming at a fair selection, the test's subject will be the same for all of you scientists of the world: write a scientific publication in English!

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

She hit upon the idea of staging what she calls vintage fairs. /fɛər/

The missing 6-year-old has fair hair, green eyes and was last seen dressed in a yellow t-shirt.

a book fair / the Frankfurt Book Fair / a trade fair (=where companies show their newest products)