Exclamation marks are used at the end of a sentence or a short phrase which expresses a very strong feeling
Some examples would be:
John get out of there!
George that is not a toy!
Help!
However, exclamation marks are usually out of place in a formal writing piece if you use them too much they can give your work a breathless, almost childish, quality.
It is normal for an exclamation to be at the end of a sentence that begins with "what" or "How"
"What an outspoken child!"
"How well we played today!"
Not that these are exclamations and not statements
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/department/docs/punctuation/node06.html
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I have had questions about exclamation points as well! Sometimes they just need to be used! Thanks for the grammar lesson!
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