Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 48 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course

49. The interjection

Goal: Your child can find interjections and knows they usually take an exclamation point.

⏱ About 20 minutes · 7 steps

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You'll need

  • The book, open to this lesson
  • Paper and a pencil (or a slate)

What's in the book

Lesson 48 is an oral lesson on the word "hurra," defines the interjection, and gives a model and twelve sentences.

The lesson, step by step

  1. Review

    Ask your child to shorten "a girl who is kind" to two words.

  2. Hurrah!

    Shout "Hurrah!" Ask: Is that a sentence? Does it tell or ask anything? It only shows feeling. The book says hurra denotes that the speaker is highly pleased.

  3. The definition

    Read:

    An Interjection is a word used to denote some sudden or strong emotion.

    Interjections usually, but not always, require an exclamation point [ ! ] after them.

  4. Use the model

    The model is:

    Hush! they are coming.

    Your child says: "Hush is an interjection; it denotes some sudden emotion."

  5. Find them

    Point out the interjections:

    Aha! you are a truant.

    Hark! the clock strikes one.

    Alas! we shall see him no more.

  6. All the parts of speech

    The book asks your child to point out all the parts of speech in these sentences. Do two or three of the short ones together. This is a good review of all of Part I.

  7. Use it today

    Count the interjections in a comic strip or a lively story.

Tip

This lesson ends Part I. Before moving on, spend a day or two reviewing the definitions your child found hardest.

Answers to the book's problems

Ha; Aha; Ahem; Hark; Pshaw; Alas; Tush, tush; Ay (some grammars call ay an adverb); Oh; Alas; Hark, hark; Alas.

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