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| − | + | A syntactic element of a sentence, 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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Revision as of 04:05, 14 December 2011
A syntactic element of a sentence, 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.
See Also
External Links
http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Exclamations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark
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.
