{"id":73851,"date":"2020-04-07T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73851"},"modified":"2020-04-07T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:22:42","slug":"exclamations-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/exclamations-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclamations Worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/exclamations\/\">exclamations<\/a>\u00a0to express strong emotions in a special way. It is important to know how to make exclamations because they are very common in both speech and writing.<\/p>\n<p>Study the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That is a shocking report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is an assertive sentence expressing a strong feeling. We can express the same idea using an exclamatory sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What a shocking report! OR How shocking!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note the use of the\u00a0<b>exclamation mark (!)<\/b>\u00a0at the end of the exclamatory sentence.<\/p>\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your sister has a very lovely smile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can express the same idea using an exclamatory sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What a lovely smile your sister has!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Exercise<\/h3>\n<p>Change the following assertive sentences into exclamatory sentences.<\/p>\n<p>1. It was a very hot day.<\/p>\n<p>2. She dances very well.<\/p>\n<p>3. He is a very rude man.<\/p>\n<p>4. She looks exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>5. The weather is very nice.<\/p>\n<p>6. That was very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>7. She is very generous.<\/p>\n<p>8. That is a sad state of affairs.<\/p>\n<p>9. It was a nice evening.<\/p>\n<p>10. She is an incredibly strong woman.<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. What a hot day! OR How hot the day is! (NOT How hot is the day!)<\/p>\n<p>2. How well she dances!<\/p>\n<p>3. What a rude man! OR How rude he is!<\/p>\n<p>4. How exhausted she looks!<\/p>\n<p>5. How nice the weather is!<\/p>\n<p>6. How interesting!<\/p>\n<p>7. How generous she is!<\/p>\n<p>8. What a sad state of affairs!<\/p>\n<p>9. What a nice evening!<\/p>\n<p>10. What an incredibly strong woman! OR How incredibly strong she is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use\u00a0exclamations\u00a0to express strong emotions in a special way. It is important to know how to make exclamations because they are very common in both speech and writing. Study the following sentences. That is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2556,2558],"class_list":["post-73851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-exclamations","tag-exclamations-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73852,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851\/revisions\/73852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}