Interjection

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interjection

An interjection, also known as an exclamation, is a word, phrase, or sound used to convey an emotion such as surprise, excitement, happiness, or anger. Interjections are very common in spoken English, but they appear in written English as well. Capable of standing alone, they are grammatically unrelated to any other part of a sentence.

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Interjection

a part of speech that includes invariable words which are usually not morphologically divisible and which appear in speech as one-unit sentences. Interjections fulfill an expressive or hortatory function, expressing, for example, the speaker’s feelings (Oh!; Oho!), a call (Hey!; Chick-chick!), or an order (Shoo!). They can be expressed by sounds and sound clusters that are not typical for a given language, for example, the labial trilled resonant (tpru!, “Whoa!”) or the combination [d‘z’] (dzin’-dzin\ “dingdong”).

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Premdas argues that the crisis faced by the country following the 1987 coup had been in the making for a long time, `below the veneer of racial calm projected to the outside world, there had lurked fierce torrents of interjectional suspicion, fear and potential strife'.[6] Ravuvu, on the other hand, contends that `Fijians had long feared that Indians would one day rule Fiji, the country of their heritage and for which their ancestors have shed their blood and sweat, and lost their lives defending it'.[7]

Fiji: the limits of ethnic political mobilisation

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