Interjections

Interjections

by Olga Shamrai -
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I really liked learning more about interjections. I didn’t realize how often we use them in everyday speech!

Here’s a sentence that shows interjections in action:
“Yeah, life is good for Robert, his wife, and their two cats. Cheerio!”

Here are some examples of parts of speech from those sentences:

  • Interjections: Yeah, Cheerio

  • Nouns: life, Robert, wife, cats

  • Pronouns: their

  • Verbs: is

  • Adjectives: good, two

  • Prepositions: for

  • Articles: his (used like a possessive adjective here)

I think it’s interesting how just one little word like “Yeah” or “Cheerio” can show emotion or feeling and totally change the tone of a sentence.