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This chapter deals with embedded corrections in second language talk. In embedded corrections, the speaker in the ongoing turn B corrects an item in a preceding turn A while doing some possible next action to this preceding turn A. Thus, the main work of turn B is on this next action and not on the correction. It is this' next action'which is consequential for turn C, then, and not the correction; in other words, the speaker of the trouble-source turn A does not orient to the correction in turn B. Embedded corrections therefore do not open a'side sequence'as in the cases reported by Brouwer (this volume) but proceed with the main business of the sequence.