Education English | Exclamation | Wren and Martin (1979:495) say that “exclamation is used to draw greater attention to a point than a mere bald statement of it could do”. Furthermore, the examples of exclamation according to Wren and Martin are:
a. What a piece of work is man!
b. How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
The function of exclamation at the end of the examples above is to indicate the excited tone of voice. If the writer say 'Oh!' for instance, the exclamation point would indicate that the person is saying 'Oh!' in an excited way, rather than simply saying 'Oh,' with a comma after it, which would indicate that the present is somewhat disappointing.
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