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Rule "Missing punctuation after an interjection"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Missing punctuation after an interjection
Message: Interjections are usually punctuated.
Category: Punctuation (ID: PUNCTUATION)
Link: http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/interjection.htm
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Oh horrid examples...
    Correction suggestion: Oh,, Oh!, Oh?, Oh.
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Oh, horrid examples...
  • Oh my God, I can’t believe this.
  • Oh my, that's horrible!
  • Yahoo Mail.
  • Oh yeah, that's great!
  • When he goes to the pub, it's for company, and when he makes his rounds at night, the wee folk give him sport.
  • The term Wee Free was an epithet commonly used to distinguish two Scottish Presbyterian Churches after the union of 1900.
  • Deirdre is suddenly canny, funny and a wee bit naughty.
  • Oh boy.
ID: INTERJECTIONS_PUNCTUATION [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-25 22:33:08 +0100)