> and everything! seems to end! with an exclamation point!
I looked at a Tom Swift book a few years back, and was amused to survey its exclamation mark density. My vague recollection is that about a quarter of all sentences ended with an exclamation mark, but don’t trust that figure. But I do confidently remember that all but two chapters ended with an exclamation mark, and the remaining two chapters had an exclamation mark within the last three sentences. (At least chapter’s was a cliff-hanger that gets dismantled in the first couple of paragraphs of the next chapter—christening a vessel, the bottle explodes and his mother gets hurt! but investigation concludes it wasn’t enemy sabotage for once.)
I looked at a Tom Swift book a few years back, and was amused to survey its exclamation mark density. My vague recollection is that about a quarter of all sentences ended with an exclamation mark, but don’t trust that figure. But I do confidently remember that all but two chapters ended with an exclamation mark, and the remaining two chapters had an exclamation mark within the last three sentences. (At least chapter’s was a cliff-hanger that gets dismantled in the first couple of paragraphs of the next chapter—christening a vessel, the bottle explodes and his mother gets hurt! but investigation concludes it wasn’t enemy sabotage for once.)