A few days ago
K.Kombuis

English Grammar ?

1) What is wrong with this sentence? Why ? Nothing is also an answer.

I gave her a name which was “Betty”.

The correction is : I called her “Betty”

What is the inverted comas for ?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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They are not inverted commas they are quotations marks. They indicate that they are someone’s direct words if they are doubles (“) and that they are a paraphrase (the meaning but not the exact words) if they are in the sigle (‘) also if I write my exact words and they are telling exactly what you said you use both as in (The man quoted his brother as saying “‘Man my father’s son is ugly'”.

It can also be used when the word or words are made up. Such as calling her “Betty” if you called her Betty then that is probably not her name or you would have said her name was Betty and not used any quote marks.

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