REMARK.

To express an unusual degree of emotion, more than one exclamation point may be used.

Rule II. Interjections.—All interjections except O may be followed by an exclamation point.

EXAMPLES.

“But, alas! to make me

The fixed figure of the time, for scorn

To point his slow unmoving finger at.”—Shakespeare.

“Oh! blessed temper, whose unclouded ray

Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.”—Pope.

“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!”—Shakespeare.