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Intervention vs Interjection - What's the difference?

intervention | interjection |

As nouns the difference between intervention and interjection

is that intervention is the action of intervening; interfering in some course of events while interjection is an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
  • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    interjection

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
  • *
  • 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)
  • An interruption; something interjected
  • See also

    * vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----