1. Nouns and pronouns, as fire, mercy, shame, nonsense, the idea, what.
2. Verbs like, help, look, see, listen, hark, behold, begone.
3. Adjectives like, good, well, brave, welcome, strange.
4. Adverbs like, out, indeed, how, why, back, forward.
5. Prepositions like, on, up, down.
6. Phrases like, Oh dear, dear me, good bye.
Words and phrases such as these, used as exclamations, are not true interjections, for they express a little more than feeling. They express an idea which, in our haste, we do not completely express. The other words necessary to the expression of the idea are omitted because of the stress of emotion. For example:
- Silence! I will hear no more.
In this sentence it is understood that we mean, Let us have silence, I will hear no more. But in the stress of our emotion, we have omitted the words, Let us have.
If we say, Good! that will do splendidly, you know that we mean, That is good, we have simply omitted That is, which is necessary to complete the sentence. Sometimes when we are greatly excited we abandon our sentence construction altogether and use only the most important words. For example: