Select the appropriate option of exclamatory sentence from the options given below to convert the assertive sentence:
Man is a wonderful creation of God.
A. How wonderful creation of God is Man!
B. What a wonderful creation of God, man is!
C. How wonderfully man is created!
D. How man is so wonderfully created by God!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → B only
Assertive to exclamatory:
- When the adjective describes a singular countable noun ("a wonderful creation"), the exclamation begins with "What a": What a + adjective + noun + subject + verb!
- "How" goes with an adjective or adverb standing alone: How wonderful man is!
- The meaning and the words of the statement are kept. Only the form changes.
- This sentence: "Man is a wonderful creation of God" → "What a wonderful creation of God man is!"
Example: It is a beautiful garden. → What a beautiful garden it is!
(A) How wonderful creation of God is Man! — Incorrect.
- A noun phrase with "a" needs "What a", not "How".
- "How wonderful creation" is ungrammatical, because "how" cannot go with a noun phrase that has lost its article.
(B) What a wonderful creation of God, man is! — Correct.
- It uses "What a" with the noun phrase and keeps the statement's meaning and words.
(C) How wonderfully man is created! — Incorrect.
- It changes the noun phrase into the adverb "wonderfully" and drops "of God", so it is a different sentence, not a conversion of the given one.
(D) How man is so wonderfully created by God! — Incorrect.
- "How ... so" is ungrammatical: "how" already expresses degree, so "so" cannot be added.
Contrast: What a goes with an adjective + singular noun (What a wonderful creation of God man is!). How goes with an adjective or adverb standing alone (How wonderful man is!), never with a noun phrase.