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The term "inverted commas" is correct and acceptable in written English.
"Inverted commas" is another term for quotation marks, which are used to indicate direct speech or to enclose a quote or title within a sentence. Example: The teacher said, "Please remember to use inverted commas when citing sources in your essays."
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inverted commas
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Plural of inverted comma
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Books feel different without inverted commas.
The whole thing was just so 'poetic', in inverted commas.
But he said it, inverted commas and all.
I am not going to dignify that without inverted commas.
For example: Henry James/ Abhorred the word Dames,/ And always wrote "Mommas" / With inverted commas.
Because when the pure O exploded, my life grew inverted commas and flew away.
Ironic style distances the process of gentrification by putting it in inverted commas.
"It was sort of raised eyebrows, every conversation has sort of inverted commas floating over it".
Drawing attention to the loaded nature of pop language, he put inverted commas inside the title.
This blog was amended on 23rd December 2013 to remove inverted commas around the word 'historian' in the standfirst.
Just as some people have happy marriages, and delightful children, and swimming pools, some have summer holidays, without inverted commas.
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