Sentences with strong feeling
Read these three.
“The dog got out.”
“Did the dog get out?”
“The dog got out!”
The first one hands you a fact. The second one asks you a question. The third one is the same fact as the first. But now somebody is upset about it.
A sentence that shows strong feeling is an exclamation. It ends with an exclamation point, which looks like this: !
What counts as strong feeling
- surprise: “The kite flew away!”
- excitement: “We won the game!”
- worry: “The soup is boiling over!”
- delight: “It is snowing!”
All of them are sentences. All of them show that the writer feels something about what is happening.
The same rules still apply
An exclamation is a sentence like any other. It starts with a capital letter. It has a naming part and a telling part.
The only thing that changes is the mark at the end. The exclamation point takes the place of the period. A sentence never has both.
| Sentence | What it does | End mark |
|---|---|---|
| The bus is here. | tells something | period |
| Is the bus here? | asks something | question mark |
| The bus is leaving without us! | shows strong feeling | exclamation point |
Words to know
- exclamation: a sentence that shows strong feeling
- exclamation point: the mark that ends an exclamation
Your turn
Say tells, asks, or shows strong feeling.
- “My hat blew into the pond!”
- “Where is my hat?”
- “My hat is blue.”
- “A bee landed on my arm!”
Check your answers
- Shows strong feeling.
- Asks.
- Tells.
- Shows strong feeling.
Remember
- An exclamation shows strong feeling.
- It ends with an exclamation point instead of a period.
- It still needs a capital letter and both sentence parts.