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Everything about Interjection

Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment

An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse category, with many different types, such as exclamations (ouch!, wow!), curses (damn!), greetings, response particles, hesitation markers, and other words. Due to its diverse nature, the category of interjections partly overlaps with a few other categories like profanities, discourse markers, and fillers. The use and linguistic discussion of interjections can be traced historically through the Greek and Latin Modistae over many centuries. Wikipedia →

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📖 Definitions

Noun A phrase or word with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence but which serves to express emotion or as a filled pause; an exclamation.

Noun Something which is interjected; an interruption.

Noun The act of interjecting something.

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  1. Historical classification
  2. Meaning and use
  3. Distinctions and modern classification
  4. Interjections as deictics
  5. Interjections across languages
  6. Examples from English

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