Choose the right option to change the following sentence into an Exclamatory one :
The night is very beautiful.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → How beautiful is the night!
Assertive to exclamatory:
| Change | Assertive | Exclamatory | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening words | very beautiful | How beautiful | “Very + adjective” becomes “How + adjective”: very beautiful becomes “How beautiful”. |
| Word order | The night is | How beautiful is the night | The rest of the sentence follows: “the night is” (or, in a more literary order, “is the night”). |
| End mark | (.) | (!) | The sentence ends with an exclamation mark. |
| Full sentence | The night is very beautiful. | How beautiful is the night! |
Example: The view is very lovely. → How lovely the view is!
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: How night beauty ! — Incorrect. It has no verb, and the adjective "beautiful" is replaced by the noun "beauty".
Option 3: How beauty of the night ! — Incorrect. "How" must be followed by an adjective or adverb, not the noun "beauty". The sentence also lacks a verb.
Option 4: How beautiful very night ! — Incorrect. "Very" must be dropped once "How" is used, and the article and verb are missing.