INTERJECTIONS
[Sidenote: _Definition._]
334. Interjections are exclamations used to express emotion, and
are not parts of speech in the same sense as the words we have
discussed; that is, entering into the structure of a sentence.
Some of these are imitative sounds; as, tut! buzz! etc.
_Humph_! attempts to express a contemptuous nasal utterance that no
letters of our language can really spell.
[Sidenote: _Not all exclamatory words are interjections._]
Other interjections are _oh_! _ah_! _alas_! _pshaw_! _hurrah_! etc.
But it is to be remembered that almost any word may be used as an
exclamation, but it still retains its identity as noun, pronoun,
verb, etc.: for example,
"Books! lighthouses built on the sea of time [noun];"
"Halt! the dust-brown ranks stood fast [verb],"
"Up! for shame! [adverb],"
"Impossible! it cannot be [adjective]."
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