Questão 96702

Analyze the following statements regarding the syntactic and semantic properties of interjections in English:

I. Primary interjections, such as 'Ouch!' or 'Psst!', are semantically opaque, meaning their meaning is not derived from other words and they do not belong to any other grammatical class.

II. Secondary interjections, such as 'Indeed!' or 'Heavens!', are words borrowed from other lexical categories (adverbs, nouns) that have adopted an exclamatory function, but they do not fully retain their original grammatical properties in all contexts.

III. While often standing alone, interjections can be syntactically integrated into a sentence, as in 'My life is, alas, forever changed', where 'alas' functions as a parenthetical adverbial of affect.

Based on a rigorous grammatical analysis, it is correct to state that: