'What a delicious meal! is an Exclamatory sentence for which of the following Assertive Sentences:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → The meal is very delicious.
Exclamatory to assertive:
An exclamatory sentence beginning with What a + adjective + noun expresses a strong feeling about the quality of something.
| Change | Exclamatory | Assertive | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word order | What a delicious meal | The meal is ... delicious | The exclamation is replaced by a plain statement. |
| Opening words | What a | very | The strong feeling is shown with very (or great). |
| End mark | (!) | (.) | An assertive sentence ends with a full stop. |
| Full sentence | What a delicious meal! | The meal is very delicious. |
Example: What a beautiful garden! → The garden is very beautiful.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: It was what a delicious meal. — Incorrect. It keeps the exclamatory "what a" inside a statement, which is ungrammatical.
Option 3: It is a meal very delicious. — Incorrect. The word order is wrong. In English the adjective comes before the noun: "a very delicious meal".
Option 4: This were a delicious meal. — Incorrect. The singular subject "this" needs was (or is), not "were".