MULTIMEDIA-ENGLISH

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  Drag&Drop
Exclamations with HOW / WHAT
Focus Grammar
Description Practise the use of HOW and WHAT for exclamations.
Instructions Click on the words at the bottom and drag them into the empty boxes of the sentence to complete it.
 
Gapped text Items
______________________ tall your son has grown! I can't recognise him! What / What a / How
Kevin with Susie? ______________________ strange! What / What a / How
______________________ tall building! How / What a / What
______________________ nice hair! What / How / What a
______________________ big eyes you've got! What / How / What a
______________________ old church! What an / How / What
______________________ stupid waiters! I'll never come back to this restaurant How / What / What a
______________________ cold weather there is here in Finland! What a / How / What
______________________ beautiful smile you've got! What a / What / How
______________________ nice dress that is! What / How / What a
______________________ blue eyes! He's so handsome! What / How / What a
______________________ interesting book this is! What an / What / How
______________________ small those birds are! it's incredible What a / How / What
______________________ interesting this book is! How / What / What a
______________________ blue the sky in Italy is! What a / How / What
______________________ lucky! You won again! How / What a / What
Oh my God, ______________________ big! It's huge! how / what a / what
______________________ nice! I like it here How / What / What a
______________________ nice hair you've got! What a / What / How
______________________ stupid those waiters are! I'll never come back to this restaurant. What a / How / What
Total number of items: 20
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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)