correct
verb (used with object)
to set or make true, accurate, or right; remove the errors or faults from: The new glasses corrected his eyesight.
had been correcting
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past perfect progressiveof correct.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She had been correcting social studies papers and had just finished reading Noah Gershom's essay on the First Amendment when the thought flew into her head.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
He had been correcting mistakes ever since Maximilian’s landing.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Then Miss Brown shoved back the test papers she had been correcting and glanced at the clock.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
He had been correcting proofs to catch the post, and wore the look of a man abstracted, faintly contemptuous of other forms of life.
From Fraternity by John Galsworthy
“He said, sir, his work was so particular that after he had been correcting for twelve hours his eyes and mind were exhausted, and he could not do his work properly.”
From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn
