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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 ?