Change the following Assertive sentence into an Exclamatory sentenece.
She is a very intelligent child.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → What an intelligent child she is!
Assertive to exclamatory (very + adjective + noun):
| Change | Assertive | Exclamatory | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening words | a very intelligent child | What an intelligent child | “Very” is dropped and the sentence opens with What + a/an + adjective + noun. |
| Word order | She is (at the start) | she is (after the noun) | The subject and verb follow the noun in normal order and are kept: “... she is!” |
| End mark | (.) | (!) | An exclamation mark replaces the full stop. |
| Full sentence | She is a very intelligent child. | What an intelligent child she is! |
Example: He is a very brave soldier. → What a brave soldier he is!
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: An intelligent child what she is! — Incorrect. The exclamatory word "What" must open the sentence. Placed in the middle, it makes the word order ungrammatical.
Option 3: What an intelligent child! — Incorrect. It drops "she is", so it no longer says who is intelligent. A transformation must keep the whole meaning of the given sentence.
Option 4: She must be an intelligent girl! — Incorrect. It is not an exclamatory pattern at all: "must be" turns a fact into a guess, and "girl" replaces "child".