In inverted commas Used to indicate that something one just said is untruthful, ironic, or disingenuous. ('Inverted commas' is another term for quotation marks, chiefly used in British English.) We were 'taught,' in inverted commas, by the teaching assistant, but we did most of our learning independently. English punctuation rules state that a comma should be inserted before closing inverted commas, for example: - 'I don't know how to explain this,' he admitted. However, I don't think this is the case when quoting only words or short phrases, right? Inverted commas definition: 1. The symbols “ ” or ‘ ’ that are put around a word or phrase to show that someone else has. In the UK, and some other countries, the single inverted comma is used (‘) to surround pieces of reported speech; in the US, and other places too, they double it up for extra security (“). Examples of reported speech and inverted commas ‘I say, old man’, he asked. ‘Could you possibly pass me that copy of the Financial Times?’.

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English[edit]

According to the The Oxford Guide to Style British usage of single vs double inverted commas differs from the US one. Quotation marks, also called 'inverted commas', are of two types: single and double. British practice is normally to enclose quoted matter between single quotation marks, and to use double quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation.

Etymology[edit]

From the appearance of an apostrophe as a raised or 'inverted' comma.

Noun[edit]

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1. (Britain) A type of quotation mark, denoted by ‘ (beginning the quoted material) or ’ (ending it).
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 299:

     The following paradigm will serve to illustrate what we mean by this term:
     (37) (a) ‘Will I get a degree?ʼ John wondered
     (37) (b) John wondered whether he would get a degree
     (37) (c) John wondered would he get a degree
     The italicised sequence in (37) (a) is said to be an instance of direct speech: John's exact words are recorded verbatim, and are bounded in the spelling by a question mark and inverted commas; points to note here include the use of the present tense Auxiliary will, the inversion of the Auxiliary, and the use of the first person pronoun I to represent the speaker.

Usage notes[edit]

• The plural is ambiguous, since 'inverted commas' may refer either to two or more separate inverted commas or to a single double inverted comma, the equivalent to a double quotation mark.

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in inverted ˈcommas

(spoken) used to show that you think a particular word, description, etc. is not true or appropriate: The manager showed us to our ‘luxury apartment’, in inverted commas.

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