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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#m1)

2) Inverted commas are the punctuation marks ‘ ’ or « » used around speech or a quote; also called speech marks or quotation marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x1)
- The camera made an inverted picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x2)
- Turn the jar inverted on the plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x3)
- To divide by a fraction, multiply by the inverted fraction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x4)
- The bat hung inverted from the branch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x5)
- The letters on the reflection looked inverted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x6)
- The roof had the appearance of an inverted flower, and the colors grew deeper and brighter to the gazer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/21/)
- [Direct speech is the exact words someone says; it goes inside inverted commas, also called speech marks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/5/)
- [The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inverted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inverted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.