inverted

«inverted» in Mova's school dictionary: turned upside down or the other way round — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (inverted); verb past (invert → inverted)

meaning for a pupil

1) Inverted means turned upside down or the other way round. tree →

2) Inverted commas are the punctuation marks ‘ ’ or « » used around speech or a quote; also called speech marks or quotation marks. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English (UK SATs), pupils punctuate speech with inverted commas: ‘Come here,’ said Mum. In maths, an inverted fraction is turned over (2/3 becomes 3/2) — used when dividing fractions. In science, a lens makes an inverted (upside-down) image.

examples

• Put inverted commas around what the character says. tree →
• The camera made an inverted picture. tree →
• Turn the jar inverted on the plate. tree →
• To divide by a fraction, multiply by the inverted fraction. tree →
• The bat hung inverted from the branch. tree →
• The letters on the reflection looked inverted. tree →
• The roof had the appearance of an inverted flower, and the colors grew deeper and brighter to the gazer. tree →

note

Verb: invert. UK schools say «inverted commas»; US says «quotation marks». In maths, «invert» = flip (reciprocal): 4 becomes 1/4.

In the corpora

• Newspaper articles include quotes, which are people's exact words in inverted commas.
• Direct speech is the exact words someone says; it goes inside inverted commas, also called speech marks.
• The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inverted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.