Questions and Answers on Interjections
Question 1 : What are the functions of interjections?
Answer : Interjections can grab attention, create interest, or highlight the speaker’s strong emotions.
Question 2 : What interjection might one utter to express dismay or disbelief?
Answer : One might utter “Zounds,” “Zoiks,” “Pshaw,” or “Heavens,” among others.
Question 3 : If one includes an interjection in a sentence, how is it punctuated?
Answer : The interjection is separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma.
Question 4 : What are interjections?
Answer : Interjections are words that express strong feelings or grab attention.
Question 5 : How to use punctuation in interjections?
Answer : Interjections can be punctuated in one of two ways, depending on how strong they are. If the interjection is mild, it can be included in a single sentence, separated from the rest of the words by a comma.
Well, did you find the hotel?
Indeed, this is the strangest looking dog I have ever seen.
Stronger interjections, however, should stand alone. These are punctuated with an exclamation mark.
Heavens! You’re covered with blood.
What! Who told you I can’t dance?
You must choose the method appropriate to your own words.
Question 6 : Give a list of common interjections.
Answer : The following is a list of common interjections:
- Ah
- Alack
- Alas
- Bah
- Eh
- Good
- Good grief
- Good Heavens
- Hey
- Ho
- Indeed
- Mercy
- Oh
- Oops
- Never
- Well
- Whew
- Zounds
Question 7 : Is an interjection an independent element?
Answer : Interjections always function independently of the other parts of speech. An interjection is an independent element because it lacks a grammatical relation to any other part of the sentence; it is a complete thought unto itself. Only when quotes does such a word take any larger meaning in grammar.
“Never” was the last thing anyone heard him say.
Here the quoted interjection never serves as the subject of the sentence.