What is Interjection?
An Interjection is a word or phrase used in a sentence to indicate feelings, request, demand or to emphasize some feelings .
They insert exclamation into the sentence.
These are parts of speech but not connected grammatically with other parts of speech.
They can be a single word or phrase .
They are independent part of sentence .
Even if we exclude Interjection from sentence , it doesn’t impact the meaning of the sentence.
Usually they can’t be modified.
Example – Wow , Goodness , Hurray, Yippee , etc
Types of Interjection –
1 . Primary Interjections – These are the Interjections used only as Interjections and they can’t be used as other parts of speech.
These are -Wow, Oh, Hurray, Ouch, Huh, Phew, Aw, Alas, Gee, God, Geez, Blah, Yuck, Oops, Meh, Ugh
Example of sentences –
Hurray! We have won the game .
Ugh! This is really irritating.
2. Secondary Interjections – These are the Interjections which can be used as other types of parts of speech also .
Example – Goodness! How he scored the goal ?
Indeed , they were waiting for the moment .
3 . Mild Interjections – These Interjections are used to express relatively mild feelings and expressions.
These are separated by a comma from the rest of the sentence .
Examples –
Well, it is not expected.
Hmm, the boy is performing good .
4 . Strong Interjections – These are used to indicate strong expression of feelings .These are generally seperated by exclamation marks from rest of the sentence.
Example –
Wow ! What a pleasant weather .
Yippee! We have done it .
5 . Vilitive Interjections – These are used to express requests, commands and wishes .
Example – Enough , Ahem , Psst, Shh , Shoo
Example of sentences –
Enough! Stop this discussion.
Ahem ! I am searching for another method .
6. Emotive Interjections – These are used to indicate emotions like delight , surprise, sorrow, disgust, fear .
These generally used to replace ‘ I feel‘ expression in speech .
Example –Ugh ! What a bad infrastructure.
Yippee! Our institution reached the final .
Yam! What a delicious dish .
Alas ! His grandfather has passed away.
7 . Cognitive Interjections – These Interjections are born off cognition. These are used to express thought , feelings and emotions that people collect through experiences.
Examples –
Bravo! What a stunning effort .
Eureka! I have found the answer.
Um, can it be explained elaborately?
Well, I will do it again .
8. Greetings and Parting Words – These are Interjections used greet, welcome someone or to express good wishes.
Example–
See you soon! Take care .
Example – Yes! I will definite
Example –
Awesome! What a performance.
When emotion, thought, feeling or demand is less extreme we don’t use Exclamation mark and use full stop at the end of the sentence.
Example –
Well, You need to come again .
We use comma after an Interjection to seperate from the rest part of the sentence , if express less extreme feeling or thought .
Example –
Indeed, this is a fantastic story.
When we use an Interjection to express uncertainty or questions, we use question mark after it or at the end of the sentence.
Example – My goodness! How can he catch this ?
