Choose the correct exclamatory form of the following sentence from the options given below:
The students are excited to go for the excursion.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → How excited the students are to go on an excursion!
Assertive to exclamatory with "How":
Pattern: How + adjective + subject + verb + rest of the sentence + !
| Change | Assertive | Exclamatory | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening words | are excited | How excited | When the feeling lies in an adjective (“excited”), the exclamation begins with How + adjective. |
| Word order | The students are excited to go for the excursion | How excited the students are to go on an excursion | Subject + verb: “the students are”. The rest: “to go on an excursion”. |
| End mark | (.) | (!) | The pattern ends with an exclamation mark. |
| Full sentence | The students are excited to go for the excursion. | How excited the students are to go on an excursion! |
The tense (present) and the meaning stay the same.
Example: The view is beautiful. → How beautiful the view is!
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Alas, the students are eager to go for the excursion! — Incorrect. Alas expresses sorrow, which does not suit the students' excitement.
Option 3: How the students were excited for the excursion! — Incorrect.
- "How" must come directly before the adjective: "How excited the students ...".
- "were" changes the present tense into the past.
Option 4: Kudos to the students excited to go for the excursion! — Incorrect. Kudos means praise. The sentence praises the students instead of expressing their excitement, and it has no main verb.