Sometimes the exclamatory word is only a part of the whole exclamation.
In this case, the exclamatory word should be followed by a comma, and the entire exclamation by an exclamation mark.
Each kind of sentence may be of an exclamatory nature, and then the sentence is said to be an exclamatory sentence: [How happy all the children are!
Interjections and exclamatory words and expressions should be followed by the exclamation mark.
His mingled calculations and meditations reached that exclamatoryterminus in feeling, and settled on the picture of Diana, about as clear as light to blinking eyes, but enough for him to realize her being there and alone, woefully alone.
Once more the translator is tempted to confess his opinion, that the contrary practice of Homer and Virgil affords, in reality, no reasonable objection against the exclamatory exuberances of Camoens.
This exclamatory address to the Moor Monzaida, however it may appear digressive, has a double propriety.
To the exclamatory type belongs the use in independent sentences of certain particles, the primary interjections: Abà!
To the exclamatory type belong, further, words and phrases used as secondary interjections: Anò!
The plural unos, unas, is frequently used for emphasis orexclamatory effect.
Words which take the accent mark merely to indicate interrogative or exclamatory use are given under the unaccented form, and the existence of an accented form is not mentioned if the English equivalent remains the same.
I quite excited Monsieur Voisin by my exclamatory entrance.
But she only referred to her exclamatory first words in reply to Monsieur Voisin's question: 'You greeted us with some rather startling words, Miss Jenrys.
But the ladies were of a different opinion, and they at once began a close and exclamatory inspection of each, extolling their colour, their texture, their quaint designs, their rarity and costliness.
This exclamatory phrase is almost a shriek; despair sweeping through her soul, as she thinks of why she is there shut up.
Then succeeds a short interval of silence, broken by anexclamatory phrase of three short words from the lips of Miss Wynn.
It was on reaching this conclusion that Captain Ryecroft gave involuntary utterance to the exclamatory words heard by him lying flat among the ferns above, the last one sending a thrill of fear through his heart.
Very few sentences really need or merit a mark of exclamation; and if they are properly constructed the reader will feel the exclamatory force, whether the point is expressed or not.
The exclamatory and interrogative sentences, of which amateurs use so many, under the mistaken impression that they lend vivacity and vividness, should be totally eschewed.
The exclamatory phrase is almost a shriek; despair sweeping through her soul, as she thinks of why she is there shut up.
Soon also dropping them, with a look of surprise, followed by the exclamatory phrases-- "Prodigiously strange!
The rejoinder was preceded by a string of exclamatory phrases, ill becoming the Chief of the State.
This exclamatory dialogue was carried on while the alarm bells were still ringing, and the guns booming.
Perplexed as the Countess herself, and possibly more despairing, she could but echo the exclamatory words-- "How indeed!
Abrupt outcry, in which the less and the more forcible exclamatory pauses are metrically provided for by the lacking thesis and arsis respectively.
The exclamatory pause after 'Bacon' is metrically equivalent to an accented syllable.
An interrogatory pause for the first foot or an exclamatory for the last; unless we combine the lines thus:-- Van.
A round of exclamatory remarks went up at the information, followed by eager questions.
A little shout of laughter burst from the participants in the recent adventure as they obeyed Leila's exclamatory request.
An exclamatory word or sentence should be followed by the exclamation mark; as, But hush!
Write four examples of an exclamatory sentence and name the subject and the predicate of each sentence.
A sentence that expresses a sudden or strong feeling is called an =exclamatory sentence=.
These exclamatory phrases caused me to raise my eyes.
There were short, exclamatory phrases, and hoof-strokes upon the prairie turf.
She tried to think of some question which would lead the conversation to the less exclamatory subject of crops.
Repeat and illustrate definitions and rules; illustrate fully what is taught of the position of phrases, and of the punctuation of phrases, connected terms, and exclamatory expressions.
Sometimes an interjection alone and sometimes an interjection and the words following it form the exclamatory expression; as, Oh!
Although any sentence may without change of order become exclamatory (Lesson 46), yet exclamatory sentences ordinarily begin with how or what, and are usually in the transposed order.
All Exclamatory Expressions must be followed by the exclamation point.
How and what usually introduce such sentences; but a declarative, an interrogative, or an imperative sentence may become exclamatory when the speaker uses it mainly to give vent to his feelings; as, It is impossible!
An Exclamatory Sentence is one that expresses sudden thought or strong feeling.
The mark of exclamation is placed after interjections and words used interjectionally; that is to say, after expressions of an exclamatory nature.
A full stop is placed at the end of every sentence that is neither exclamatory nor interrogative.
Exercise 4 Note in the following sentences the words which are pure interjections, and those which are other parts of speech used as exclamatory words.
An interjection is anexclamatory word or phrase used to express feeling or to imitate some sound.
In conversation, these exclamatorywords are very useful.
A great many different and widely separated feelings can be expressed simply by the tone in which you use the exclamatory words.
Exercise 3 Write sentences using the words given in the foregoing list as exclamatory words, and add as many more to the list as you can think of.
Her observations were cut short by her unconscious victim grasping her by the arm and hurrying her up and down dark flights of steps, the whole way continuing her explanations, peppered with gasps and exclamatory German outbreaks.
This time there were neither exclamatory eyebrows nor smothered giggles, and Nora, forgetting that they had ever been, saw in Wolff's action the seal and charter of her happiness.
An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.
Arriving at Mount Mark, he was instantly surrounded by anexclamatory crowd of station loungers.
And---- The three young modelers looked up in exclamatory consternation as the doors opened.
There was the same sweet pedantry of the Attic e, the same superiority to the most venial abbreviation, the same inconsistent forest of exclamatory notes, thick as poplars across the channel.
And had your exclamatory friend been present he might have added to the hilarity of the occasion with some such remark as--I have had so many interruptions, that flash of brilliancy has escaped me.
All exclamatory expressions must be followed by the exclamation point+.
All exclamatory expressions must be followed by the exclamation point.
Change each of the following intoexclamatory sentences.
Write a declarative, an interrogative, an imperative, and an exclamatory sentence on each of the following topics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exclamatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
