: Re: Are too many exclamations wrong? Exclamations, I feel, are a good way to describe tone without actually writing the tone. But most of the time I end up (as per reviewers) with too many of

There are many writing techniques that are useful, but that become tedious or confusing if overused.

There's certainly nothing wrong with using exclamation marks. They identify this sentence as being particularly important, or the speaker as expressing strong emotion. But if every sentence has an exclamation mark, it's just tiresome. If everything is emphasized, then nothing is emphasized.

How many is too many? There's no hard and fast rule. I suppose in general I'd say that if you have more than 2 or 3 exclamations on an average page, that's reason to step back and see if that's really appropriate.

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