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interjection
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
interjection English part of speech consisting of exclamatory words such as oh, alas, and ouch. They are marked by a feature of intonation that is usually shown in writing by an exclamation point (see punctuation ). Many languages have classes like interjections.
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INTERJECTION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
INTERJECTION. A PART OF SPEECH and a term often used in dictionaries for marginal items functioning alone and not as conventional elements...
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theatre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...reveal distinct emotions and circumstances. The gesture of the mime can conjure up absent objects; sometimes it serves as an interjection and expresses the psychological content of the moment: hesitation, joy, fear, etc. A successful attitude is like a condensed...
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Healy, Timothy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...and in 1884 was called to the bar. In 1890, when the Parnell divorce scandal broke, Healy attacked him vehemently: his interjection in Committee Room 15, ‘who is to be the mistress of the party?’, still reverberates. He was in...
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SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...or nearly glideless version, so that kite may resemble cart . (5) In a class of LOANWORDS from Afrikaans, such as the interjection ga (/xa/) expressing disgust, and gedoente (fuss, bustle), most speakers use a borrowed velar or palatal fricative...
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JEWISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...shleppy , shleppily , shleppiness , shleppish , shleppishly ); by extending the function of loans, for example, the Yiddish interjection nebish a pity, used (with the spelling nebbish ) as an adjective meaning ‘pitiful, unfortunate’...
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stuttering
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...prolongations of sound or syllables. Other problems of fluency may also characterize stuttering, including blocking of sounds or interjection of words or sounds. However, the sudden sensation of a loss of control over the ability to produce an utterance distinguishes...
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saga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the milieu of a heroic society is made vivid. Historical accuracy was often a major aim of the saga, although reworking, interjection of the supernatural, and other changes caused distortion. The historical approach is felt in the careful selection of events...
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part of speech
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...words, based on the parts of speech of ancient Greek and Latin. The parts of speech are noun , verb , adjective , adverb, interjection , preposition , conjunction , and pronoun . Some grammarians add articles, quantifiers, and numerals. These word classes...
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PART OF SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...of English generally list eight parts of speech: NOUN , PRONOUN , VERB , ADJECTIVE , ADVERB , PREPOSITION , CONJUNCTION , INTERJECTION . The parts of speech are traditionally defined by a mixture of formal and notional criteria. This mixture has posed problems...
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