Interjection vs Intersection - What's the difference?
interjection | intersection |
(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 junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
(geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
(set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
(sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.[http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html]
As nouns the difference between interjection and intersection
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 intersection is the junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.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)