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Use of interjections varies over time and between speaker groups. Geographical variation can be seen in the use of interjections like lah, which are found almost exclusively in Singapore and Malaysia in the GloWbE corpus, [24] yaar, which is almost entirely limited to India and Pakistan, [25] or haba, which is almost entirely limited to Nigeria ...
Volitive interjections function as imperative or directive expressions; requesting or demanding something from the addressee (e.g., Shh! = "Be quiet!"; [4] Boo! as in "Boo!" she cried, jumping to frighten him). Emotive interjections are used to express emotions, such as disgust and fear (e.g., Yuck! expressing disgust; [4] Boo! signalling ...
In Singapore, the use of medium Singlish often includes eh as an interjection, but it is not as popularly used as lah. An example of a sentence that uses eh is "Dis guy Singlish damn good eh", meaning "this guy's Singlish is very good". Similar to Singapore, Malaysia also uses eh in Manglish as an interjection.
When used as back-channel items, he classifies them as interjections; but when they are used as the responses to a yes–no question, he classifies them as formulaic words. The distinction between an interjection and a formula is, in Ameka's view, that the former does not have an addressee (although it may be directed at a person), whereas the ...
Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise or disapproval.
(also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis. The exclamation mark often marks the end of a sentence, for example: "Watch out!".
Pages in category "Interjections" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Interjections are sometimes considered function words but they belong to the group of open-class words. Function words might or might not be inflected or might have affixes. Function words belong to the closed class of words in grammar because it is very uncommon to have new function words created in the course of speech.