Change the following Exclamatory sentence into Assertive. Choose the appropriate option from below.
What a wonderful creature an ant is!
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → An ant is a wonderful creature.
Exclamatory to assertive:
The feeling of wonder is kept by the adjective, or by adding "very" or "great".
| Change | Exclamatory | Assertive | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Word order | What a wonderful creature an ant is | An ant is a wonderful creature | “What a / What an + adjective + noun” is changed into a plain statement in the normal order: subject + verb + complement. |
| End mark | (!) | (.) | The exclamation mark becomes a full stop. |
| Full sentence | What a wonderful creature an ant is! | An ant is a wonderful creature. |
Example: What a lovely garden this is! → This is a very lovely garden.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: What is an ant wonderful creature. — Incorrect. It has the word order of a question, ends with a full stop and makes no sense.
Option 3: An ant is created wonderfully. — Incorrect. It changes the meaning: it speaks of how the ant was made, not of the ant being a wonderful creature.
Option 4: Wonderful creature is an ant. — Incorrect. The word order is inverted and the article "a" is missing.