The interjections of Japanese and English are, just so, suggested by a common natural prototype, the instinctive cries, and are thus unavoidably suggestive of each other.
Interjections are among the least important of speech elements.
These interjections are merely conventional fixations of the natural sounds.
The mistake must not be made of identifying our conventional interjections (our oh!
What applies to the interjections applies with even greater force to the sound-imitative words.
In other words, the interjections and sound-imitative words of normal speech are related to their natural prototypes as is art, a purely social or cultural thing, to nature.
Interjections require the objective case of a pronoun of the first person after them, but the nominative of a noun or pronoun of the second or third person; as, "Ah!
Interjections not included in the following list, are generally known by their taking an exclamation point after them.
Hence, real interjections are not a part of written language.
Interjections require the objective case of a pronoun of the first person after them; but the nominative of a noun or pronoun of the second or third person; as, "Ah me!
Interjections are not so much the signs of thought, as of feeling.
Interjections that are but slightly exclamatory are followed by commas.
Bearing in mind the way in which human interjections baffle the average writer, we cannot be surprised at the poor success that crowns the endeavours of the naturalist to syllabise bird notes.
The cause of these interjections expressing delight is a clutch of white eggs or a brood of young birds, hidden in a hole in a tree or a building.
Wild words were upon my lips; when at that moment some strange interjections reached my ears, uttered within the enclosure.
Were it possible to trace human language directly back to natural sounds, to interjections or imitations, the question whether the Science of Language belongs to the sphere of the natural or the historical sciences would at once be solved.
In fact all the interjections when uttered as exclamations commence with capitals: "Alas!
Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs become interjections when they are uttered as exclamations, as, nonsense!
It is generally employed with interjectionsor clauses used as interjections: "Alas!
There is also an absence of interjections and lengthened vowels, all of which indicate that the time was slow, and the actions of the singer temperate, as was the custom at the beginning of a baile.
He notes that in the fragments of the ancient verses which had been preserved until his day there were inserted between the significant words certain interjections and meaningless syllables, apparently to fill out the metre.
Meaningless interjections are inserted for metrical effect, while others are thrown in and repeated in order to express emotion.
Expletives are of all grades from simple interjections to the strongest profanity.
Into the same inconsistency, do nearly all those gentlemen fall, who ascribe to interjections a control over cases.
Correct the following sentences, and adapt the interjections to the emotions expressed by the other words: Aha!
The principal interjections in English are as follow.
What say Murray, Ingersoll, and Lennie, about interjections and cases?
Again: "Interjections must be followed by the objective case of the pronoun in the first person; as, O me!
Of the old and usual term interjection, a recent writer justly says, "This name is preferable to that of exclamation, for some exclamations are not interjections, and some interjections are not exclamations.
In this book, the syntax of interjections stands thus: "RULE 21.
When written, interjections are often followed by an exclamation point (!
Among interjections are properly included calls to animals (like “whoa!
Interjections usually have no grammatical connection with the groups of words in which they stand; hence their name, which means “thrown in.
Interjections usually have no grammatical connection with the phrases or sentences in which they stand.
Illustration: 033] Among the foregoing interjections there may, perhaps, be some unhonored by the adoption of genius, and unknown in the domains of literature.
The objective case of a pronoun in the first person is put after the interjections Oh!
Like many another wounded giant before him, he experienced the insufficiency of interjections to solace pain.
Tuckham in the mildest interjections he could summon for a vent in society to his offended common sense; 'the better your men the worse your mark.
And she continued to volley a string of interjections which shocked her husband to hear them coming from those lips.
While many of the asides and interjections are gross, vulgar, and, seemingly, pointless, others show a pretty and pungent wit.
We omit the two interjections to be found here in the original text, not because they are highly flavoured, but simply because they have no bearing on the narrative.
Interjections are not always followed immediately, and are sometimes not allowed at all, by a mark of exclamation.
The mark of exclamation is placed after interjections and words used interjectionally; that is to say, after expressions of an exclamatory nature.
So much, Rhoda had gathered from her uncle's babblinginterjections throughout the day.
She was immediately plied with queries and interjections of wonderment by Miss Wicklow, and it was not until she said: "You saw him go out, didn't you?
The train left the station of Baltimore upon the whistle of the engine-driver amidst the hurrahs and all the admiring interjections of the American language.
And while these interjections were being showered like hail, the well-known irritability of the Secretary of the Gun Club constituted a permanent danger to the director, Belfast.
These cries or interjections were represented as the natural and real beginnings of human speech.
But these interjections are only the outskirts of real language.
Without the artful contrivances of language, mankind would have had nothing butinterjections with which to communicate, orally, any of their feelings.
The whole art of the poet is employed to interest our passions in favour of the necessary reform, by expostulatory interrogations and interjections the most affectingly pathetic.
A minute afterward, my interjections were not quite so inoffensive.
They crept up the stairs, Pomander in advance; they heard the signs of an Irish orgie--a rattling jig played and danced with the inspiriting interjections of that frolicsome nation.
These interjections are small on paper, but as the good creatures uttered them they were eloquent; there was a cheerful variety of dispraise skillfully thrown into each of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interjections" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
