Choose the correct option to change the following sentence into an Assertive sentence.
How beautiful the garden is!
A. The garden is very beautiful.
B. The garden is not beautiful.
C. How the garden is beautiful.
D. The garden is extremely beautiful.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A and D
Exclamatory to assertive:
- An exclamatory sentence with How + adjective expresses a strong feeling about a quality.
- In the assertive form:
- "How" is replaced by an intensifier such as very or extremely.
- The normal order subject + verb + complement is used.
- The exclamation mark becomes a full stop.
- This sentence: "How beautiful the garden is!" → "The garden is very beautiful."
Example: How tall the tower is! → The tower is very tall.
(A) The garden is very beautiful. — Correct.
- "How" becomes "very", and the praise of the garden is kept as a plain statement.
(B) The garden is not beautiful. — Incorrect.
- It reverses the meaning: the exclamation praises the garden.
(C) How the garden is beautiful. — Incorrect.
- It keeps "How", so it is not a statement, and its word order fits neither form.
(D) The garden is extremely beautiful. — Correct.
- "Extremely", like "very", carries the strength of the feeling into the statement.
Note: The actual question was dropped by NTA. For the benefit of the students and to give additional practice, the original question has been replaced with a new question.