Interjections

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00:00INTERJECTIONS

00:03Look at these sentences.

00:05Ah!

00:06I've got a toothache.

00:09Hurrah!

00:11We won!

00:14The words ah and hurrah are called interjections.

00:21The word interjection means thrown in.

00:26An interjection is a word thrown in mostly at the beginning of a sentence or in a conversation

00:35to express a deep or sudden emotion.

00:40It is followed by an exclamation mark.

00:44For example, Wow!

00:47What a brilliant idea!

00:49Huh?

00:51What did you say?

00:52Oops!

00:53I'm sorry.

00:56Hi, how are you?

00:59Ouch!

01:00That hurts.

01:02Phew!

01:03It's finally done.

01:06Yuck!

01:07This tastes awful.

01:11Interjections have no grammatical value, but we use them quite often.

01:18The words hello, hey, bye, and shh are also interjections.