Basic Details
Word: Invited
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Asked someone politely to come somewhere or to do something; the past tense of invite.
Synonyms: asked, called, requested
Antonyms: excluded
How to Spell Invited
Syllables: in - vit - ed
Tricky part: Invite already ends in e, so only d is added. The t is not doubled, because the i in invite is a long vowel.
Watch out for: invitted, envited, invitid
Memory tip: Invite already has its e, so it needs only a d: invite + d = invited.
Usage Examples
Example 1: My aunt invited the whole family for Diwali lunch.
Example 2: The scientist was invited to talk to our class about space.
Example 3: Only players who had practised every week were invited to the trials.
Fun Fact
Nominations for the Nobel Prizes are made only by people the committees invite, such as professors and past winners, and nobody may nominate themselves.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the word opposite in meaning to invited as used in the sentence:
Every child in the colony was invited to the Holi celebration in the park.
a) excluded
b) called
c) welcomed
d) asked
Show answer
a) excluded. To invite is to ask someone in; to exclude is to keep them out.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Last summer our class was invitted to the observatory, where an astronomer showed us the craters of the moon through a huge telescope.
a) astronomer
b) telescope
c) invitted
d) observatory
Show answer
c) invitted. The i in invite is long, so the t stays single when d is added.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
We were all tedivin to the opening of the new public library.
a) invaded
b) invited
c) invented
d) visited
Show answer
b) invited. There are two i's and no a, s or second n in the jumble.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A guest who arrives without being invited is ____.
a) unwritten
b) uninvited
c) unlit
d) uneven
Show answer
b) uninvited
2. Which of these would you say if you invited a friend?
a) Would you like to come over on Sunday?
b) Please leave my house at once.
c) Can you tell me where the station is?
d) I will be busy for the whole of next year.
Show answer
a) Would you like to come over on Sunday?
