間違っていたら、修正してください。

I don't understand the word いたら after the verb in -TE form.

Thank you
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What does 間違っていたら、修正してください mean, particularly ～ていたら?
間違っていたら、修正してください。

  * 間違う means "to make a mistake"
  * 間違って is the て form of 間違う
  * 間違っている means "are/is making a mistake"
  * 間違っていた is the た form of 間違っている and means "were/was making a mistake"
  * 間違っていたら means "if I was making a mistake"
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I believe this is the past conditional with -ている. Here are two good resources
that will allow you to understand this grammar form and anything similar to
it:

<http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/teform>
<http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/conditionals>

Friendly Ghost described the deconstruction of the meaning very well in his
answer. In general, you can recognize the above intuitively as:

て-form + いる --> enduring state of verb (i.e. 食べている -> eating)

て-form + いた --> past enduring state of verb (i.e. 食べていた -> was eating)

て-form + いたら --> past enduring state of verb with conditional (i.e. 食べていたら ->
if was eating)

So this sentence means something along the lines of: "If you were making a
mistake, please correct it." I think the subject of the sentence is up for
debate since there's not really any context. Hope this helps!
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