I do with my friends _as_ I do with my books.--EMERSON.
NOTE.--Very rarely _like_ is found with a verb following, but this is not considered good usage: for example,--
A timid, nervous child, _like_ Martin _was_.--MAYHEW.
Through which they put their heads, _like_ the Gauchos _do_ through their cloaks.--DARWIN.
_Like_ an arrow shot From a well-experienced archer _hits_ the mark.--SHAKESPEARE.
334. Interjections are exclamations used to express emotion, and are not parts of speech in the same sense as the words we have discussed; that is, entering into the structure of a sentence.
Some of these are imitative sounds; as, tut! buzz! etc.
_Humph_! attempts to express a contemptuous nasal utterance that no letters of our language can really spell.
[Sidenote: _Not all exclamatory words are interjections._]
Other interjections are _oh_! _ah_! _alas_! _pshaw_! _hurrah_! etc. But it is to be remembered that almost any word may be used as an exclamation, but it still retains its identity as noun, pronoun, verb, etc.: for example, "Books! lighthouses built on the sea of time [noun];" "Halt! the dust-brown ranks stood fast [verb]," "Up! for shame! [adverb]," "Impossible! it cannot be [adjective]."
335. All discourse is made up of sentences: consequently the sentence is the unit with which we must begin. And in order to get a clear and practical idea of the structure of sentences, it is necessary to become expert in analysis; that is, in separating them into their component parts.
A general idea of analysis was needed in our study of the parts of speech,--in determining case, subject and predicate, clauses introduced by conjunctions, etc.
A more thorough and accurate acquaintance with the subject is necessary for two reasons,--not only for a correct understanding of the principles of syntax, but for the study of punctuation and other topics treated in rhetoric.
336. A sentence is the expression of a thought in words.
[Sidenote: _Kinds of sentences as to form._]
337. According to the way in which a thought is put before a listener or reader, sentences may be of three kinds:--
(1) Declarative, which puts the thought in the form of a declaration or assertion. This is the most common one.
(2) Interrogative, which puts the thought in a question.