Before doing this activity you may need to read the text you will find at the end
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Item | Match | Comments |
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There are some strange birds in that cage | What strange birds there are in that cage ! | |
Wonderful wine | What wonderful wine ! |
"What a wonderful wine!" is possible, but in that case we are not talking about the wine we are drinking, we are talking about the type of wine we are drinking. If we drink a Rioja, a Sherry or a Lambrusco and we say "what wonderful wine!", we are not saying that this wine I am drinking is excellent, we mean that Rioja (or Sherry, or Lambrusco) is an excellent (type of) wine. But anyway, since the excersise says "wonderful wine", and not "a wonderful wine", the only correct answer here is "What wonderful wine!" |
You've got a nice car | What a nice car you've got ! | |
A joke | What a joke ! | |
She takes nice photographs | What nice photographs she takes ! | |
A beautiful smile | What a beautiful smile ! | |
You've got a beautiful smile | What a beautiful smile you've got ! | |
They are funny children | What funny children they are ! | |
A big, big cake | What a big, big cake ! | |
An old church | What an old church | |
This is a big room | What a big room this is ! | |
A park | What a park ! | |
You have some cute puppies | What cute puppies you have ! | |
This is a very big park | What a big park this is ! | |
A big park | What a big park ! |
We can make exclamations using WHAT
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!!!
- What a big car you have ! (exclamation, no inversion)
- What a big car do you have!
- What car do you have? (question, inversion)
Compare:
- How beautiful she is (how + beautiful: adjective)
- What a beautiful girl she is (what + a beautiful girl: noun)