Excessive Exclamation!!: Do not put rubbish in this bin!!! Plz

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Do not put rubbish in this bin!!! Plz

If they would have just used a single exclamation point, maybe they would have had the room to spell out "please."

Submitted by "The Pedantic Nerd"

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The Grammar Police

The exclamation point is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume (shouting), and often marks the end of a sentence. Example, "Watch Out!" A Sentence ending in an exclamation mark is an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), the imperative mood ("Stop!"), or intended to be astonishing or show astonishment ("They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!). Overly frequent use of the exclamation mark is generally considered poor writing, for it distracts the reader and reduces the mark's meaning. And, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes."