00:01Have you ever gotten really excited about something and shouted,
00:06hooray, or really surprised by something and said, wow, maybe you knew you were about to
00:16make a mistake and you said, uh-oh. All of these words are called interjections.
00:27Interjections are words we use to express emotion. Interjections that express strong emotion
00:34are followed with an exclamation point and interjections that express mild emotion are
00:42followed by a comma. These kids look pleasantly surprised. They might be saying, whoa, look at
00:51that swimming pool. Since they're very excited, they use strong emotion and our interjection,
00:58whoa, is followed by an exclamation point. The interjection is set apart from the sentence
01:05and even though it doesn't seem like a complete sentence, it is expressing a complete thought.
01:12Whoa, is expressing the thought, we are so excited. After the exclamation point, we need to use a
01:22capital letter to begin our next sentence. We would not be very excited if we said, oops,
01:31my friend dropped his ice cream. Notice that the interjection, oops, is followed by a comma because
01:41mild emotion is being expressed. Our interjection is part of the sentence, so we continue with a
01:49lowercase letter. Let's stop and review what we've learned so far. Interjections are words used to
01:58express emotion. Some interjections express strong emotion. Interjections that express strong emotion
02:07are followed by an exclamation point and you have to use a capital letter to begin a new sentence after
02:15them. Some interjections express mild emotion. Those that express mild emotion are followed by a comma,
02:24so you are not beginning a new sentence after them. We use interjections all the time. If you figured
02:34out who had been hiding your socks, you might say, aha. If you happened upon a slithery reptile, you might
02:44say,
02:45eek. If you made a scientific discovery, you might shout, eureka. Of course, if you were
02:54disappointed because the rain interfered with your soccer game, you might say, rats, the game was
03:02canceled. If you forgot to send your favorite Aunt Mary a birthday card, you might say, gee, I should
03:10have thought of that. A few interjections might be used to mean different things. Their meaning depends
03:19on the context. That is, when and how you say them. For example, you might say, aw, that's a cute
03:28puppy
03:29when you see a furry face like this one. Or you might say, aw, that's the wrong answer if you
03:37were
03:38disappointed that you had missed a question. Interjections are almost always found at the
03:45beginning of a sentence. Take a look at the list of interjections and see if you can figure out
03:52where you think they belong. Which interjection should go before that hurt?
04:01What would you say before our team won? How about that scared me?
04:09And finally, this cake is good. Are you ready to see my answers?
04:18Here they are. Let's read the sentences together.
04:23Ouch, that hurt.
04:26Yay, our team won.
04:30Yikes, that scared me.
04:33Mmm, this cake is good.
04:37All of these sentences still make sense without the interjections, but the interjections add some
04:45emotion.
04:47Let's review what we've learned.
04:50Interjections are words used to express emotion.
04:55Sometimes they express strong emotion.
04:57That's when we use an exclamation point and begin a new sentence.
05:02Some interjections express mild emotion.
05:06For those interjections, we use a comma and just continue our sentence from there.
05:12Yay!
05:14You learned so much about interjections today.
05:17But, aw, we've come to the end.
05:21Have fun using those interjections and remember to always be clever.
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