Ans.  Interjections are words thrown in between the parts of sentences, to express the passions or sudden feelings of the speaker.  Q. How may an interjection generally be known?  Ans.  By its taking an exclamation point after it:  [as,] ‘Oh! I have alienated my friend.’”—­R.  C. Smith’s New Gram., p. 39.  Of the interjection, this author gives, in his examples for parsing, fifteen other instances; but nothing can be more obvious, than that not more than one of the whole fifteen stands either “between sentences” or between the parts of any sentence! (See New Gram., pp. 40 and 96.) Can he be a competent grammarian, who does not know the meaning of between; or who, knowing it, misapplies so very plain a word?

OBS. 4.—­The Interjection, which is idly claimed by sundry writers to have been the first of words at the origin of language, is now very constantly set down, among the parts of speech, as the last of the series.  But, for the name of this the last of the ten sorts of words, some of our grammarians have adopted the term exclamation.  Of the old and usual term interjection, a recent writer justly says, “This name is preferable to that of exclamation, for some exclamations are not interjections, and some interjections are not exclamations.”—­GIBBS:  Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec.333.

LIST OF THE INTERJECTIONS.

The following are the principal interjections, arranged according to the emotions which they are generally intended to indicate:—­1.  Of joy; eigh! hey! io!—­2.  Of sorrow; oh! ah! hoo! alas! alack! lackaday! welladay! or welaway!—­3.  Of wonder; heigh! ha! strange! indeed!—­4.  Of wishing, earnestness, or vocative address; (often with a noun or pronoun in the nominative absolute;) O!—­5.  Of praise; well-done! good! bravo!—­6.  Of surprise with disapproval; whew! hoity-toity! hoida! zounds! what!—­7.  Of pain or fear; oh! ooh! ah! eh!  O dear!—­8.  Of contempt; fudge! pugh! poh! pshaw! pish! tush! tut! humph!—­9.  Of aversion; foh! faugh! fie! fy! foy![318]—­10.  Of expulsion; out! off! shoo! whew! begone! avaunt! aroynt!—­11.  Of calling aloud; ho! soho! what-ho! hollo! holla! hallo! halloo! hoy! ahoy!—­12.  Of exultation; ah! aha! huzza! hey! heyday! hurrah!—­13.  Of laughter; ha, ha, ha; he, he, he; te-hee, te-hee.—­14.  Of salutation; welcome! hail! all-hail!—­15.  Of calling to attention; ho! lo! la! law![319] look! see! behold! hark!—­16.  Of calling to silence; hush! hist! whist! ’st! aw! mum!—­17.  Of dread or horror; oh! ha! hah! what!—­18.  Of languor or weariness; heigh-ho! heigh-ho-hum!—­19.  Of stopping; hold! soft! avast! whoh!—­20.  Of parting; farewell! adieu! good-by! good-day!—­21.  Of knowing or detecting; oho! ahah! ay-ay!—­22.  Of interrogating; eh? ha? hey?[320]