"Until they repay the cost of passage," the monk corrected gently.

"I think it was maple," Brandon said, gently correcting his father.

No, not a refusal," he gently corrects me, "but rather a decision not to learn, because we were being taught the wrong stuff.

"Not ready yet, Mister President," she corrected gently, and he smiled.

I tried to pay the waiter when he brought the bill, but he gently corrected me.

"The Otherworld and the manifest world," he corrected gently.

"You eat this with something sweet like apple butter or syrup," the waitress gently corrected us before excusing herself to leave for church.

Just to gently correct your use of language.

"But of course you have, Harry," I said, gently correcting him.

"Your daddy can get his brains beaten out royally," my partner corrected gently.