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Interjections
Interjections have no grammatical association with a sentence in which they are used. This doesn’t disqualify them from being used frequently though. They are found more often in speech than in writing. However, fictional writing may use a lot of them when directly quoting the characters. Examples: And so on. As you can see, the words are short exclamations which we use in expressing greetings, surprise, pain, joy, etc. They may be followed with a comma or an exclamation mark (!) to indicate a stronger emotion.
• Ah: Used to express pleasure, surprise, realization, etc. • Alas: Used to express grief. • Well: Used to express surprise, bring forth a remark. • Er: Used to express hesitation. These are all emotional expressions. Formal academic writing rarely uses one except for quoting someone in direct speech.
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