14 Verbs to Use for the Word interjections

no word is absolute, or "taken absolutely" but this noun "turns;" and this, without the least hint of its case, the learned author will have us to understand to be absolute, because the phrase resembles an interjection!

This is the old platform of the Latin grammarians; which differs from that of the Greek grammars, only in having no Article, and in separating the Interjection from the class of Adverbs.

of the term; LOWTH'S error in describing the interjections Interjections, numb. of, in common use List of Interjections, the frequent use of, an indication of thoughtlessness; expressiveness of some interjections in earnest utterance, &c. should be discriminatively used chief characteristics of; referred to the class of adverbs by the Gr.

How can we distinguish an INTERJECTION?

MURRAY'S doctrine on this point is thus expressed: "The interjections O!

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!

10.When a declinable word not in the nominative absolute, follows an interjection, as part of an imperfect exclamation, its construction (if the phrase be good English) depends on something understood; as, "Ah me!"that is, "Ah! pity me;" or, "Ah! it grieves me;" or, as some will have it, (because the expression in Latin is "Hei mihi!")

Our language [i. e., the Latin] does not require articles, wherefore they are scattered among the other parts of speech; but there is added to the foregoing the interjection.

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.

He rejects the interjections; and so did Valla, Sanctius, and Tooke.

It was not, therefore, to prop any error of the old theorists, that I happened to set one interjection "where" according to this new oracle, "it never belonged."

6. Correct the following sentences, and adapt the interjections to the emotions expressed by the other words:

And, as their use in language, or in connexion with language, makes it necessary to assign them a place in grammar, it is certainly more proper to treat them as above, than to follow the plan of the Greek grammarians, most of whom throw all the interjections into the class of adverbs. OBS.

Begone is a needless coalition of be and gone, better written separately, unless Dr. Johnson is right in calling the compound an interjection: as, "Begone!

14 Verbs to Use for the Word  interjections