Excessive Exclamation!!: August 2013

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Thank you for not sitting on me!!

Thank you, for using excessive exclamation!!

Monday, August 5, 2013

Toss Trash Here!!!

...and toss your excessive exclamation here as well!!!

Thursday, August 1, 2013

100% Vegetarian!!!

Beef, chicken, and shrimp made from soybeans? 100% disgusting!!!

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."