Interjection vs Conjunction - What's the difference?
interjection | conjunction |
(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
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An interruption; something interjected
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
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(grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
(astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
(astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the () operator.
In grammar terms the difference between interjection and conjunction
is that interjection is an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion while conjunction is a word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.interjection
English
(wikipedia interjection)Noun
(en noun)- Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
(21) (a) ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
(21) (b) ?''Bill , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
See also
* vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----conjunction
English
(wikipedia conjunction)Noun
(en noun)- Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.