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expletive. n. 1. (Linguistics) an exclamation or swearword; an oath or a sound expressing an emotional reaction rather than any particular meaning. 2. (Linguistics) any syllable, word, or phrase conveying no independent meaning, esp one inserted in a line of verse for the sake of the metre. adj.
An exclamatory sentence is a type of sentence that expresses strong feelings by making an exclamation.(Compare with sentences that make a statement, express a command, or ask a question .).With the appropriate intonation, other sentence types (especially declarative sentences) can be used to form exclamatives. An exclamatory sentence usually ends with an exclamation point. To find the subject of an exclamatory sentence that is not a statement, a question, or a command, ask yourself, About what does the sentence exclaim?.