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Vincent Teo Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Interjection + exclamatory mark

Which sentence is considered correct?

1 Ouch, that hurts!

2 Ouch! That hurts.

  

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Vincent Teo Which sentence is considered correct? 1 Ouch, that hurts! 2 Ouch!

  • Vincent Teo Which sentence is considered correct?
  • 1 Ouch, that hurts!
  • 2 Ouch!
  • That hurts.
  • That is dialogue.
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Vincent Teo

Which sentence is considered correct?

1 Ouch, that hurts!

2 Ouch! That hurts.

That is dialogue. You can write it any way you think will produce the sounds you want the reader to get. Both of those are OK, but they read differently. The first is more a sort of emphatic comment. The second is what you would say on the moment as t

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