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to interjection

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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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The new version focuses entirely on the grandmother and, as Leibowitz also notes, "Williams's role shrinks to interjection, remonstrance or the reading of stage directions".

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Student groups simultaneously used presentational language and managed interpersonal interaction with several distinct audiences, manifested through participant structures that required them to sustain extended discourse and respond to interjections from the teacher.

Total disaster is averted, however, thanks to the interjection of an old familiar face.

"I really tried to use the comic (Latin) authors, to use interjections that they would use for 'wow' and 'darn,' but there were a few terms that were pretty challenging," he said.

But he's also prone to jarring interjections, switching without ceremony from a smooth Donny Osmond croon to campy impersonations of daffy robots and soap-opera vampires.

Irish comedian Maeve Higgins was also able to anchor a slightly-too-freewheeling section of her deliberately rambling set thanks to the interjections of an observant older woman.

In the sentence beginning this paragraph, I could again have used parentheses ("parens" to friends) or even commas to separate the mild interjection of "to writers, at least," but I didn't.

Mr. Alesch, who wears his blond hair long and a goatee pointed like a Cervantes character, is quiet and given to dreamy interjections.

He will sometimes provide a transitional "Exactly, exactly" while at the same time conveying the impression that he has not been paying much attention to any interjections the listener has been making in the vain hope of slowing him down.

"And it's quite unhelpful to have interjections at the 11th hour.

The sound of the man's narration may be represented by vocabulary, syntax, imagery, graphic devices of various sorts quotation marks, punctuation, line breaks, visual patterning of white space and black space, markers that encode print analogs to speech vernacular interjections, parentheses, ellipses, asterisks, footnotes, italics, dashes ..

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