I heard an apt interjection on the part of the proprietress which set them all roaring, and so lowered their self-esteem that they left summarily.

The definitions to be given in the Tenth Praxis, are, two for an article, six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, seven for a verb finite, five for an infinitive, two for a participle, two (and sometimes three) for an adverb, two for a conjunction, one for a preposition, and one for an interjection.

An Interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind: as, Oh! alas!

2.The word interjection comes to us from the Latin name interjectio, the root of which is the verb interjicio, to throw between, to interject.

Dr. Lowth, in his haste, happened to describe them as a kind of natural sounds "thrown in between the parts of a sentence;" and this strange blunder has been copied into almost every definition that has been given of the Interjection since.

What does interjection mean?

How may an interjection generally be known?

Of the interjection, this author gives, in his examples for parsing, fifteen other instances; but nothing can be more obvious, than that not more than one of the whole fifteen stands either "between sentences" or between the parts of any sentence!

4.The Interjection, which is idly claimed by sundry writers to have been the first of words at the origin of language, is now very constantly set down, among the parts of speech, as the last of the series.

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.

The adverb ay is sometimes improperly written for the interjection ah; as, ay me!

and still oftener we find oh, an interjection of sorrow, pain, or surprise, written in stead of O, the proper sign of wishing, earnestness, or vocative address: as, "Oh Happiness!

3.The chief characteristics of the interjection are independence, exclamation, and the want of any definable signification.

Yet not all the words or signs which we refer to this class, will be found to coincide in all these marks of an interjection.

The definitions to be given in the Eleventh Praxis, are, two for an article, six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, seven for a verb finite, five for an infinitive, two for a participle, two (and sometimes three) for an adverb, two for a conjunction, one for a preposition, and two for an interjection.

O is an interjection, indicating earnestness.

An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind.

2. The interjection of wishing, earnestness, or vocative address, is O. Sooner is an adverb of time, of the comparative degree; compared, soon, sooner, soonest.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the interjection oh, a sign of sorrow, pain, or surprise, is here used to indicate mere earnestness.

What is an interjection? LESSON II.PARSING.

Behold appears to be here an interjection, like Ecce.

Ingersoll says, "Sometimes a whole phrase is used as an interjection, and we call such interjectional phrases: as, out upon him!away with him!Alas, what wonder! &c."Conversations on Gram., p. 79.

"An Interjection is a word used to express sudden emotion.

In Frost's Practical Grammar, the words of the language are said to be "divided into eight classes," and the names are given thus: "Noun, Article, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.

article, noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, participle, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection.