Which of the following are correct Exclamatory forms of the given Assertive sentence?
We had a very pleasant boat ride on Periyar Lake.
(A) What a pleasant boat ride we had on Periyar Lake!
(B) What a pleasant boat ride we have on Periyar Lake!
(C) How pleasant a boat ride we had on Periyar Lake!
(D) How pleasantly we had a boat ride on Periyar Lake!
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) and (C) only
A correct exclamatory form drops “very” and keeps the past tense of the given sentence.
(A) What a pleasant boat ride we had on Periyar Lake! — Correct.
- “What a + adjective + noun” comes first, then the subject and verb “we had” in normal order.
(B) What a pleasant boat ride we have on Periyar Lake! — Incorrect.
- It changes “had” to “have”, so the tense changes.
- Correct form: What a pleasant boat ride we had on Periyar Lake!
(C) How pleasant a boat ride we had on Periyar Lake! — Correct.
- “How + adjective + a + noun” comes first, then “we had” in normal order, so the meaning and the past tense stay the same.
(D) How pleasantly we had a boat ride on Periyar Lake! — Incorrect.
- It uses the adverb “pleasantly”, but the word must describe the ride, so the adjective “pleasant” is needed.
- Correct form: How pleasant a boat ride we had on Periyar Lake!