Choose the correct option to change the following statement to an Exclamatory statement:

Major Dhayanchand was a great hockey player.

What a great hockey player Major Dhayanchand was!

The correct answer is Option (2) - What a great hockey player Major Dhayanchand was!

1. Exclamatory Sentences: These sentences express strong emotion or excitement, often starting with "What" or "How."
2. Correct Transformation: The exclamatory statement maintains the past tense "was" to reflect the original statement about Major Dhayanchand, while expressing admiration for his greatness as a hockey player.

Let's analyze the other options:

• What a great hockey player Major Dhayanchand is!
  This option uses the present tense "is," which does not accurately reflect the past tense of the original statement.

• How great hockey player Major Dhayanchand had been!
  This option is incorrect because it uses "had been," which is not a proper form for an exclamatory statement and lacks a determiner before "hockey player."

• How great hockey player Major Dhayanchand is!
  Similar to the first option, this uses "is," which does not correspond with the original past tense statement.