Sentence examples for inverted comma from inspiring English sources
noun
A type of quotation mark, denoted by ‘ (an "open inverted comma") or ' (a "close inverted comma"). Often used instead of "inverted commas", which also means a "double style" inverted comma, denoted by “ ("open inverted commas") or ” ("close inverted commas"), in the United Kingdom.
This article was amended on Monday 9 November 2009 to make the first word "It", rather than "I", to change the initial single to a double inverted comma and to correct the spelling of the name Jeffries to Jefferies.
Eighty-five yeago ago, James Joyce had a hard time convincing his Dublin publisher to take the French-style dash for indicating direct speech rather than the well-tested, English, inverted comma Mosley pushes Joyce's innovation to the point almost of chaos.
"There was a 'riot'," he explained, wildly gesticulating inverted comma signs.
I could go on, but I've reached my "inverted comma" quota.
– or put it in inverted commas.
Books feel different without inverted commas.
I'll put it in inverted commas.
I assumed those inverted commas to indicate a certain irony.
But he said it, inverted commas and all.
The whole thing was just so 'poetic', in inverted commas.
