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An exclamation is a sentence that generally expresses emotion. English examples include ''Wow!'' and ''What a shame!''. They are not necessarily grammatical sentences and marked by strong intonation and punctuation (ex. Exclamation point).  In modern grammar there are exclamatory sentences that usually start with “what” and “how.” There are also phrases that can be exclamative, but not an exclamation such as “How the hell do I know?”
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A [[Closed Class (definition)|closed class]] [[Part of Speech (definition)| part of speech]] which expresses a particular emotion, usually surprise, but also anger, sadness etc. Sometimes exclamations are also called interjections, because they are injected into a sentence and provide more added semantic meaning than syntactic meaning. Examples, in English include, Oh! Wow! No! Please! etc. They are typically marked with an exclamation point and are said with a raised intonation.  
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==See Also==
 
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==External Links==
 
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http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Exclamations
 
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http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnExclamation.htm
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
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*Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
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Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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*Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:16, 31 July 2012

A closed class part of speech which expresses a particular emotion, usually surprise, but also anger, sadness etc. Sometimes exclamations are also called interjections, because they are injected into a sentence and provide more added semantic meaning than syntactic meaning. Examples, in English include, Oh! Wow! No! Please! etc. They are typically marked with an exclamation point and are said with a raised intonation.

  • matà then

See Also

External Links

http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Exclamations http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnExclamation.htm

References

  • Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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