Convert the following sentence from Assertive to Exclamatory:
The evening is very beautiful.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → How beautiful is the evening!
Assertive to exclamatory with "very + adjective":
| Change | Assertive | Exclamatory | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opening words | very beautiful | How beautiful | “Very” is replaced by “How”, placed at the beginning with the adjective: “How beautiful”. |
| Word order | The evening is | How beautiful is the evening | The rest follows: “the evening is” (or, in the inverted literary order, “is the evening”). |
| End mark | (.) | (!) | The sentence ends with an exclamation mark. |
| Full sentence | The evening is very beautiful. | How beautiful is the evening! |
Example: The view is very lovely. → How lovely the view is!
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: An evening it is and that too a beautiful one. — Incorrect. It is an awkward statement, not an exclamation, and "an evening" loses the sense of this particular evening.
Option 2: Beautiful is this evening! — Incorrect. It has no exclamatory word (How or What), and the force of "very" is lost.
Option 4: What beauty is that evening! — Incorrect. What goes with a noun phrase ("What a beautiful evening it is!"). "What beauty is that evening" is unidiomatic, and "that" changes "the evening".