{"id":74967,"date":"2021-02-20T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74967"},"modified":"2021-08-16T06:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T06:44:41","slug":"transformation-of-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/transformation-of-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformation of an exclamatory sentence into an assertive sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We can change the form of a sentence without altering its form. This is called transformation of sentences. In this lesson we will learn about the transformation of an <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/exclamatory-sentences.htm\">exclamatory sentence <\/a>into an assertive sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study the example given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What a brilliant idea it is! (Exclamatory sentence)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We can express the same idea using assertive or declarative sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a brilliant idea.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that assertive sentences end with a full stop whereas an exclamatory sentence ends with an exclamation mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What a big tragedy!<\/li><li>It is a big tragedy.<\/li><li>How carelessly he drives!<\/li><li>He drives very carelessly.<\/li><li>How quickly the holidays passed!<\/li><li>The holidays passed very quickly.<\/li><li>What a brilliant performance it was!<\/li><li>It was a brilliant performance.<\/li><li>What a beautiful place Kerala is!<\/li><li>Kerala is a very beautiful place.<\/li><li>What a cunning animal the fox is!<\/li><li>The fox is a very cunning animal.<\/li><li>How sweet the mangoes are!<\/li><li>The mangoes are very sweet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Use <strong>what a<\/strong> before a noun or an adjective + noun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What a generous woman she is!<\/li><li>What a foolish idea it was!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Use <strong>how<\/strong> before an adjective without a noun or an adverb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How gracefully she conducts herself!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can change the form of a sentence without altering its form. This is called transformation of sentences. In this lesson we will learn about the transformation of an exclamatory sentence into an assertive&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1983,27],"class_list":["post-74967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-sentence-transformation-worksheet","tag-transformation-of-sentences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75272,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967\/revisions\/75272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}