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Thank you We sneak in exclamation point allow shmoop we

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all have that one friend one who's an endlessly happy

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person always excited about life in school And her boyfriend

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and her twelve cats let's call her cindy Thanks doc

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and cindy is a pain in the rear because every

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sentence chief speaks comes out like this o m g

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did you see what happened to the library Carrie clueless

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dropped her coke on the carpet with everywhere too many

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exclamation point cyndi try and contain your enthusiasm I barely

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even spilled exclamation point service special purpose in writing they

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add whom to a sense or indicate the presence of

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strong emotions like surprise pain fear more urgency Exclamation points

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are like salt they should be used sparingly Clearly our

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friend cindy never learned this lesson For example when cindy

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talks about what she had for lunch it isn't necessary

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for her to say i'm having a bologna sandwich explanation

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point long sandwiches aren't exciting yellow however if cindy where

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to find a roach on her bologna sandwich we'd expect

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an exclamation point to make an appearance exclamation point When

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cindy talks about the sweater she crow shade for her

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Cat pumpkinhead she doesn't need to say his little sweater

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is so precious exclamation point it's a cat sweater not

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the solution to the riemann hypothesis However if justin bieber

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likes a picture of cindy's sweater wearing feline on facebook

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on my gosh then it would be perfectly appropriate for

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cindy tow plus doubt the exclamation point that's what i'm

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talking about while sentences we use in everyday speech might

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occasionally married an exclamation point There's a special category of

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phrases called x glam a torrey sentences these guys always

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end with an exclamation mark when cindy stepped on a

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lego and screens coach that out ends in an exclamation

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point when cindy steps in a pile of cat vomit

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in the middle of the night on the way to

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the bathroom and screens growth That growth ends in an

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exclamation point Well ha ha When cindy devises yet another

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queen sweater designed for one of her many cats and

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screens erica that eureka ends in an exclamation point when

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it comes to quotation marks it could be a tad

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difficult to figure out whether an exclamation point goes before

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or after a quotation mark so here's the rule if

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a whole sentences and exclamation exclamation point goes after the

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quotation mark for example if we have the sentence cindy

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was so surprised when carrie clueless said i like peanut

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butter and tuna fish sandwiches the sentence would look like

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this cindy was so surprised when carrie kula said comma

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quotation mark i like peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches

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quotation marks explanation point got it however if only the

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words within the quotation mark or an explanation and they

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always are in cindi's case thing The exclamation point would

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go inside the quotation mark for example if we have

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the sense cindy told carrie clueless when grandmother died yesterday

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and i'm told theo sentence would look like this sandy

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told carrie clueless comma quotation mark My grandmother died yesterday

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and i'm so sad exclamation point quotation marks and that's

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pretty much it for exclamation points Most important thing to

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remember is that fewer exclamation points there are in a

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piece of writing the better good luck getting cindy on 00:03:37.898 --> [endTime] board with that one yeah So empty

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