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There are different ways of making exclamations in Spanish. See if you can find the English equivalent using HOW or WHAT (but don't change the verb!). SPANISH - ENGLISH
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Instructions
1- Look at these Spanish exclamations and try to say the same in English 2- Move your mouse over the black button to check your answer. 3- If you were right, click on the green button, if wrong, click on the red.We make exclamations using HOW and WHAT
HOW + adjectives
- How nice!
- How nice it is!
- How tall that tree is!
- How big your house is!
WHAT (a) + nouns
the article "a" is only used with countable singular nouns, as usual
- What a surprise!
- What a big house you've got!
- What stupid things you say!
- What beer!
since they're not questions, there is no inversion!!!
- How big that tree is ! What a big car you have ! (exclamation, no inversion)
- How big is that tree !
- How big is that tree? (question, inversion)
Compare:
- How beautiful she is (how + beautiful: adjective)
- What a beautiful girl she is (what + a beautiful girl: noun)
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| Item | Match | Comments |
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| ¡Madre que casa más grande! | What a big house! | |
| ¡Qué alto está tu hijo! | How tall your son is! | |
| ¡Qué casa más grande tienes! | What a big house you've got! | |
| ¡Qué casa más vieja! | What an old house! | |
| ¡Qué cielo tan azul! | What a blue sky! |
"Sky" is used as a countable noun, it even has a plural form "the skies": - Tomorrow, we will have clear skies in Dorset and a bit of rain in Hampshire |
| ¡Qué grande es tu casa! | How big your house is! | |
| ¡Qué guapa eres! | How beautiful you are! | |
| ¡Qué hombre más alto! | What a tall man! | |
| ¡Qué mala suerte! | How unlucky! |
LUCKY= Afortunado (con suerte) UNLUCKY= Desafortunado (con mala suerte) Como UNLUCKY es un adjetivo, usamos HOW |
| ¡Qué ojos más verdes tienes! | What green eyes you have! | |
| ¡Qué pelo tan bonito tienes! | What nice hair you've got! | |
| ¡Qué pequeños son estos libros! | What small books these are! |
also: How small these books are! |
| ¡Qué sonrisa más bonita tienes! | What a beautiful smile you've got! | |
| ¡Qué sonrisa más bonita! | What a beautiful smile! | |
| ¿Kevin con Susie? ¡Qué raro! | Kevin with Susie? How strange! |
Total number of items: 15