NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Exclamation

An exclamation or exclamatory sentence, an excited utterance, see interjection, ejaculation (grammar).
Exclamation mark.
In criminal law, they are considered to be a statement against penal interest. As such, they are not excluded by rules which prohibit hearsay.

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Category: Disambiguation In linguistics, a sentence is a unit of language, characterised in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ... It has been suggested that Discourse particle be merged into this article or section. ... For biological and other meanings see ejaculation. ... an exclamation mark An exclamation mark, exclamation point or bang, !, is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feeling. ... Criminal law (also known as penal law) is the body of common law that punishes criminals for committing offences against the state. ... In United States law, a statement against penal interest is a statement that puts the person making the statement at risk of prosecution. ... Hearsay in its most general and oldest meaning is a term used in the law of evidence to describe an out of court statement offered to establish the facts asserted in that statement. ...

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Exclamation mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1069 words)
	A sentence ending in an exclamation mark is either an actual exclamation ("Wow!"), a command ("Stop!"), or is intended to be astonishing in some way ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!").
	In the IRC protocol, a user's nickname and ident are separated by an exclamation point in the hostmask assigned to him or her by the server.
	In comics, a large exclamation mark is often used in the proximity of a character's head to indicate surprise.

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