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English examples include Wow! and What a shame!.

marked by strong intonation and punctuation (ex. Exclamation point).

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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-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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+English examples include ''Wow!'' and ''What a shame!''.
+ marked by strong intonation and punctuation (ex. Exclamation point).
 ==See Also==
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 ==References==
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-Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
+*Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
+*Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-Crystal, David, and David Crystal. The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin, 1999.
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