4 verb If something rips into someone or something or rips through them, it enters that person or thing so quickly and forcefully that it often goes completely through them. (=tear). A volley of bullets ripped into the facing wall... V prep/adv.
The exclamation point (!) is a mark of punctuation used after a word, phrase, or sentence that expresses a strong emotion. Also called an exclamation mark or (in newspaper jargon) a shriek. The exclamation point was first used in English in the 16th century. However, the mark didn't become a standard feature on keyboards until the 1970s.
Semicolons and colons always go outside quotation marks. Question marks and exclamation marks go inside quotation marks if only the material being quoted is a question or an exclamation. If the entire sentence is a question or an exclamation, the question mark or exclamation mark goes outside the quotation marks. If the quotation is at the end of a sentence, the question mark or exclamation mark serves as punctuation to end the sentence.