Behavior Modification Terminology

adjective capable of being corrected, reformed, or improved

• The teacher believed that all students were corrigible and capable of improvement.
• My boss thinks I'm corrigible and willing to learn from my mistakes.
• Dude, you're totally corrigible if you just listen to some feedback.
• She saw his flaws as corrigible, like a piece of clay that could be molded into something better.

noun a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality

verb a word that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being

adverb a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse

preposition a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

article a word that is used with a noun to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, and in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope

• It is highly inappropriate to use such language; you should wash your mouth out with soap.
• Hey, watch your language! Go wash your mouth out with soap.
• Dude, that was so foul! You need to wash your mouth out with soap.
• The lies that came out of his mouth were so disgusting, it's like he needs to wash his mouth out with soap.