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(here) (Am.) - are used to attract attention.
Look here, let’s pull ourselves together, shall we?
Come (often doubled) may express encouragement or blame.
Come, come, don’t be so foolish. There’s nothing to worry about. (Ну, что ты, ну, полно.)
Come, come, you can’t expect me to believe you. (Ну нет уж.)
Hear! hear! expresses approval of somebody’s words at a meeting, etc. (Правильно, правильно.)
Verbless Commands
§ 21. Commands are sometimes expressed without an imperative verb, as in:
Silence!
Water, please.
To the right!
Off with you!
Gently, darling.
Careful, please.
No smoking!
Hush!
Exclamatory sentences
§ 22. The main distinctive feature of this communicative type of sentence is a specific intonation;
structurally it is variable.
You do look a picture of health! (statement)
Hurry up! (command)
The most common pattern of an exclamatory sentence opens with one of the pronominal words what and
how. What refers to a noun, how to an adjective or an adverb. An exclamatory sentence has a subject-predicate
structure; the order of the subject and the predicate verb (or the operator) is not inverted. An exclamation has a
falling tone in speaking and an exclamation mark in writing.
What a funny story she told us!
What valuable advice you’ve given us!
How beautiful her voice is!
How beautifully she sings!
Exclamatory sentences can be reduced to the word or phrase immediately following the exclamatory signals
what or how.
What a situation!
What a terrible noise!
How kind of you to let me in!
Besides these patterns an exclamation as a communicative sentence type often follows the pattern of other
sentence types. Thus it may be formed on the pattern of the following structures:
1. Statements:
You do look a picture of health!
2. Commands:
Hurry up!