Interjections

An Interjection is a part of speech which generally has no grammatical connection with the rest of the utterance or sentence and is used to express emotion on the part of the speaker. When written, they often have an exclamation mark to close them.

The following are considered as interjections:

Pauses

• er, um, uh

Ejaculations

• Wow!
• Yeah!
• Ouch!
• Hey!
• Oy!
• What?!
• Yeah!
• Phew!