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An interjection is a word or phrase that is grammatically independent from the words around it, and mainly expresses feeling rather than meaning.
Such as, "oh", what a beautiful house!
"Uh-oh", this looks bad. "Well", it's time to say good night.
Actually, "um", it's not my dog.
Oh, um, uh-oh, duh, whoa, yikes, nah, oh no, nope, yummy, whew, ah-huh, wow, huh, hurray, boohoo 😭, hey, boo, gosh, gee, yeah, yep, sup, bam, boom, ouch, woo hoo...

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English is a tricky language, one of the trickiest things is that in addition to learning the meaning of a word you also need to master all the uses that it has. Let's take the word "take", for example and see its several uses that I have just thought of. Take a look at them and enjoy or hate them.

1 - take a look
2 - take a listen
3 - take a sip
4 - take a bite
5 - take a sniff
6 - take a p*ek
7 - take a break
8 - take a shower
9 - take a bath
10 - take a p*e
11 - take a leak
12 - take a p**s
13 - take a dump (pardon my french)
14 - take a s**t (pardon my french)
15 - take a shot
16 - take a chance
17 - take a nap 😴
18 - take my leave
19 - take off ✈️
20 - take care
21 - take time off from work
22 - take home
23 - take out
24 - take away
25 - take up
26 - take precaution
27 - take heed
28 - take in
29 - take it
30 - what's your take on that?
31 - take a picture
32 - take the blow
33 - take it back
34 - take a punch
35 - take the easy way out
36 - take it easy
37 - take it slow
38 - take it with a grain of salt
39 - take it to heart
40 - take medicine
41 - take a course
42 - take the scenic route
43 - take it seriously
44 - take me to church
45 - take me out to dinner
46 - take measurements
47 - take measures against
48 - to not take it well
49 - take notes
50 - take it with a smile
51 - take away the pain
52 - take the wheel
53 - take hostages
54 - take time (it takes time)
55 - take action
56 - take precautions
57 - take a pick
58 - take the highway
59 - take a taxi/an Uber/a bus 🚌/the train 🚂/a flight ✈️
60 - take part in
61 - take sides
62 - take a step back
63 - take after
64 - take the advice
65 - take the advantage
66 - take the opportunity
67 - take off your shoes 👟👠
68 - take a test/an exam
69 - take a seat
70 - take one's own life
71 - it takes one to know one
72 - it takes two to tango
73 - take my word for it
74 - take a deep breath
75 - take a walk
76 - take a stroll
77 - take over
78 - take pills
79 - take a hint
80 - take a bow
81 - take it or leave

I'm friends with 25 letters of the alphabet. I don't know Y.

The English Dictionary.

First, let's look at how many words are in the Dictionary. The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use (and 47,156 obsolete words).

The average adult person needs 20,000 words to speak English with the knowledge of about 40000 words total.

One needs only 26 letters to write all those words

21 out of the 26 are consonants and 5 of them are vowels, although the letter W and Y can also represent consonants and vowels depending on how they are used.

In the word "yes" the Y represents a consonant, whereas in the word "type" it represents a vowel. The same goes for the letter W as in "wait" representing a consonant and as in "bowl" representing a vowel.

the tricky part about the consonants and the vowels is the way they sound in the words. In the alphabet, they have clear and definite sounds, but when they are placed in words they have different sounds and often times they are voiceless.

You will find several words with double consonants in them, but fortunately never more than two.

Sometimes double consonants in some of the words are only used for the sake of spelling, but not to pronounce.The also have different meanings even though they may be voiceless. For example: the words "but" and "butt" are homophones. Just by adding the letter T to the word "but" you have something else but only to spell, you pronounce them the same way.

What is also tricky is the several ways the vowels sound. In the alphabet they are clear. Each of them has their own sound, but when they are placed in words they change completely.

Let's take a look at them separately and in words

A, E, I, O, U.

No problems there, right?

Now, let's see what happens to them in different words.

The letter "A" has at least 5 different sounds as in the following words:

Tape, tap, talk, and, article.

For the letter E, I have found at least 4 different sounds as in the following words:

Beg, fern, next, behave.

The "I" has at least 3 different sounds as in bite, bit, dirt.

As for the letter O there are at least 11 different sounds. Top, coffee, poke, neighbor, purpose, London, bottle, combination, comb. (Why on earth is the letter B there?). And last but not least, the letter U.
Busy, bury, but, use, umbrella, put.

The vowels are also used in words where two of the same are placed in the word, forming a diphthong or just one sound that makes you wonder why it is there in the first place. Words such as, floor, flood, food, beef, see, vacuum, Hawaii, eye, either, peak, beach, and so on.
The double E in the words may have the clear purpose of differing it from the letter "I" as in beet and bit or teen and tin. That's all well and good, but why EA to give the words the same sound as double E? Beats me!
Uh oh, beets me would make no sense at all.
And you have the "IE" and the "EI" to form the very same sound. How would you know which one to use? The rule is "I" before "E" except after "C", but it is WEIRD.

It has been said that the writing is the representation of the sp*ech and not the other way around. What does that even mean?

In order to write all the words the Oxford English Dictionary contains you only need 26 letters, but here's a glutton sentence that consumes the entire English alphabet to write only 9 words: "The quick, clever, brown fox jumps on lazy dogs".

I have to say it's all true!