How to distinguish what is used or how to use it in English exclamations?

What modifies nouns and how modifies adjectives, adverbs or verbs. The exclamatory sentence has the following structure:

Mastering its collocation means mastering the key points of exclamatory sentences.

How+ adjective +a+ noun+declarative word order

How+ Adjective or Adverb+Statement Word Order

What+Noun+Statement Word Order

What +a+ Adjective+Noun+Statement Word Order

What+adjectives+plural nouns+declarative word order

What+adjectives+uncountable nouns+declarative word order

What a clever boy he is!

How cute this baby is!

What noise are they making!

What a clever boy he is!

What a great idea!

What cold weather!

The ellipsis form of exclamatory sentences is:

What a clever boy!

Typical example

1)__ The dishes you have cooked!

A. How nice B. How nice C. How nice D. How nice

Answer D. Because How modifies adjectives and adverbs; What modifies nouns, while food is uncountable nouns, so A and B are excluded. C How+adj cannot be followed by a noun, so only D is correct, and its sentence pattern is what+adj+N. (uncountable).

2) The weather has been terrible these days!

A. What is B. What is C. How?

Weather is an uncountable noun, excluding. C is how+adj and there should be no noun after it. There is only a, which conforms to the sentence pattern What+ adjective+uncountable noun.

3)-_ _ _ _ I have it!

-You really suffered a lot.

A.what a good time

Answer A. There are two types of interjections:

1: what+noun+subject-predicate part

2.how+ adjective/adverb/verb+subject-predicate part. This question belongs to the first kind, but it is not good to omit it, compared with how bad I am! This is an idiom.

Use exclamatory sentences when expressing strong feelings such as emotions. There are two kinds of exclamatory sentences, one is guided by what and the other is guided by how. Exclamation marks are used at the end of sentences. Use a falling tone.

What a clever boy he is!

What a clever little boy!

How clever the boy is!

How clever the little boy is!

1 What caused the exclamation

What a beautiful city this is!

What a beautiful city!

Sentence pattern: what+noun (or adjective+noun)+declarative sentence (subject+predicate)!

What an honest man he is!

What an honest man he is!

How big these apples are!

What a big apple!

What fine weather!

What fine weather!

2 How to guide interjections

How hot it is today! How hot it is today!

1. Sentence pattern: How+ adjective or adverb+declarative sentence (subject+predicate) ~!

How clever the boy is! What a clever boy!

How fast he runs! How fast he runs!

2. When 2.how modifies the verb, the verb does not move forward.

How I want to be a teacher!

How I want to be a teacher!

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The two exclamations guided by what and how are often abbreviated in spoken language, that is, the second half (declarative sentence part) is omitted, such as:

It's cold!

How cold it is!

What a heavy traffic!

How crowded the traffic is!

Comparison between exclamatory sentences and special interrogative sentences: You are so busy! (Word order of declarative sentences)

How busy you are!

Question: How busy are you? (interrogative order)

How busy are you?

The fundamental difference between these two sentences is that the exclamatory sentence is followed by the declarative sentence, while the interrogative sentence is the other way around.

Exclamatory sentence (exclamatory sentence)

Sentences expressing strong emotions (joy, anger, sorrow, joy, surprise, fear, etc.). ) is called an exclamation sentence.

There are usually three ways to express strong emotions.

(a) Use interjections (please refer to Chapter 3, Word Formation and Part of Speech-Part of Speech, H)

(b) Use only emotional words, such as:

Water! Water! Come on!

(water! Water! Come on! -For example, when fighting a fire or saving people. )

What is that smell!

What is that smell! -for example, there is a strange taste when eating)

Use "How to …!" Or "What (a)…!" Sentences, such as:

Helen, you are so beautiful!

Helen, you are so beautiful! )

What beautiful flowers!

How beautiful this flower is! )

The subject verb of this sentence can also be omitted to highlight the strong feelings, such as:

How cruel/(they)!

(It's really terrible! -If you hear about the kidnapping case, etc. )

How beautiful (these flowers) are

(d) Use short sentences with mood to express exclamation, such as:

You're kidding!

You're kidding! -expressing surprise)

I hate you!

I hate you! -Express anger or despair)