Interjections

1. Good! That lesson was well recited.

2. Hurrah! Vacation is here.

3. Alas! our dear friend is dead.

4. Oh! how my head aches.

5. Hush! you will wake the baby.

In these sentences the words good, hurrah, alas, oh and hush express strong emotions, and are not grammatically related to any other words in the sentences.

A word which expresses strong emotion and is not grammatically related to any other word in a sentence is called an interjection.

An interjection is a word which expresses strong feeling, and is not grammatically related to any other word in the sentence.

An interjection is a part of speech.

Write five sentences using an interjection in each.