Interjection vs Expletive - What's the difference?
interjection | expletive |
(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
Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
* Hallam
* Barrow
Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
(linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
(linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning; an intensifier.
As nouns the difference between interjection and expletive
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 expletive is a profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.As an adjective expletive is
serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.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") ----expletive
English
(wikipedia expletive)Adjective
(en adjective)- Expletive imagery.
- Expletive phrases to plump his speech.