Examples of Exclamatory Statements

Exclamatory statements

The exclamatory sentences are those statements what they allow the speaker to express emotions and feelings with spontaneity and simplicity. For example: I can not believe it!

The moods that exclamatory sentences can enclose are diverse: surprise, fright, joy, nostalgia, uncertainty, pain, regret, anger and many others.

In Spanish it is considered a spelling error to write only the closing sign, which is correct in English. No space should be left between the opening exclamation point and the first word of the sentence, nor between the last and that of the closing exclamation point, which also fulfills the function of a period, when a new statement.

It may happen that several exclamatory sentences are chained, each one delimited by its corresponding exclamation marks, or they can be considered as parts of a single statement.

But when the exclamation is made up of duplications or reduplications, the most common is that assume as a whole the exclamatory structure and that the signs are placed only at the beginning and at the final.

Exclamatory sentences are usually the interjections applied with various intentions, such as appellative, expressive and representative. Also the onomatopoeia, expressions of surprise or irony, the orders, the supplications, the omens and the manifestation of a wish. This means that an exclamatory sentence can at the same time be exhortative or wishful thinking.

The duplication or triplication of the exclamation marks is only allowed under certain communicative situations.

Examples of exclamatory sentences

1. You finally realize it!
2. I am fed up with your complaints!
3. Oh, I got burned!
4. She turned around and bang, all to the ground.
5. LOL!
6. Wow wow!
7. What audacity!
8. Yes Yes! I do it right away.
9. Is incredible!
10. !! Congratulations!!
11. Merry Christmas!
12. Shut up!
13. How much I miss it!
14. Poof! What a way to perspire! I thought you would find out ...
15. It is outrageous!
16. I opened the door for a good time!
17. There is no one to answer the phone
18. Martha! They are looking for you!
19. Above! Under! Above! Under!
20. Lucky you heard noises!

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