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.
1 Periods and commas: inside the quotation marks. 2  Colons and semicolons: outside the quotation marks. 3  Question marks and exclamation points : (a) inside if the question or exclamation is part of the quotation, and (b) outside if the question or exclamation is not part of the quotation.