Exclamations | Syntax | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

Paige what I think we left something out
of the last video no I left exclamations
after the last video that's not good
okay we can fix this okay
we just need to make a video yes oh
hello grammarians hello Paige hi David
so I want to talk today about the
exclamation well and exclamation is a
type of sentence so previously we
covered three other kinds of sentence we
covered declarative sentences which are
just sort of statements right we covered
interrogative sentences which are
questions and we covered imperative
sentences which are orders mm-hmm but
but I forgot to include the exclamation
I didn't actually forget I just wanted
to save space okay um but Paige would
what is an exclamation uh so it's it's a
sentence or maybe a word that's like an
expression of really strong emotion
that's why we were screaming a lot and
stuff those were all exclamations so it
doesn't even necessarily have to be a
sentence you said so it could just be
something like ow
right like an interjection like that
yeah that's a great example if you hurt
yourself you might scream out that's an
exclamation can an exclamation also be
an imperative look if I said look out
yeah I think so right that's an order
yeah and it's it's being it's being
exclaimed it's being yelled so I think
that's an exclamation do mm-hmm
so there's some overlap with like
imperative and an exclamation sometimes
I would also say that there's probably
an overlap with declarative sentences
too it's true that's right you could be
like ah that ogre is about to attack the
village right that that is just a
statement but you're clearly pretty
scared about it so there's an
exclamation point but I could also walk
that statement back also as an
explanation and say I was wrong about
the yogurt he's nice oh he's just coming
to say hi he's just coming to say hi
right you have a big ol thumbs um so
we're expressing something we're
expressing strong emotion we could just
be very excited about something right or
you can use exclamation points when
you're trying to convey that someone is
speaking at high volume okay right so I
could be yelling across
you know the field to to you my pal to
be like don't worry about the ogre he's
just bringing snacks ok so there's not
even necessarily strong emotion there
you just want me to hear you because I'm
far away so Paige I reckon that's that's
what an exclamation is I think so
expression of strong emotion or volume
so they can be they're not always
sentences so they can be interjections
like owl or they can be full sentences
like look out or that ogre is about to
attack the village yeah it can be a lot
of things me a lot of things just like
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