Hooray For Interjections

Summary
A review lesson about interjections and how to use them.

Objectives
• to review the concept of interjections with brief definitions and examples;

• to review the kind of punctuation used with interjections;

• to test students? knowledge and understanding with some review questions.

Suggested Grades
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade

Excerpt
Interjections! What are they? Interjections are one of the parts of speech. Although other parts of speech like nouns and verbs can come anywhere in a sentence, you will usually find interjections as the first word.

? Hooray! We won the game.
? Gee whiz! The team lost the championship.
? Ouch! Tom dropped the book on my foot.

An interjection is like a shout at the beginning of a sentence. You put strong feeling or emotion into one word and express that as an interjection. Interjections express feelings of happiness, sadness, excitement, disappointment, anger, disgust, horror, shock or any other strong emotion. You can even invent your own interjections.

? Roasted rattlesnakes! That was a scary ride.
? Yahoodle! I love ice cream.
? Hannah Banana! Who spilled the cereal?

You might think of an interjection as a pinch of spice to add zing to a sentence or story. But, be careful. Too many interjections can lose their punch and make your sentences sound silly. Using too many interjections is like using too much spice. It?s too much!

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