[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"grammar-exercise-01a0e1ab-da01-7191-96d9-407844ca880f":3,"grammar-exercise-lesson-01a0e1ab-d5b8-705f-91f2-f9cc7f1b0bc0":86},{"id":4,"grammarPage":5,"title":6,"instructions":7,"seoTitle":8,"seoDescription":9,"displayOrder":10,"type":11,"questions":12,"ogImageUrl":85},"01a0e1ab-da01-7191-96d9-407844ca880f","\u002Fapi\u002Fgrammar_pages\u002F01a0e1ab-d5b8-705f-91f2-f9cc7f1b0bc0","What and How — Check Everyday Exclamations","Tap each tile, then tap its column. Decide whether each sentence is correctly formed as an exclamation.","What and How exclamations: spot form errors","Sort correct and incorrect What and How exclamations about shopping, holidays and home life, checking articles, noun phrases and statement order.",3,"word_sort",[13,32,49,67],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"blanks":18,"payload":19},"01a0e1ab-da01-7341-96d9-40784569c39f","Check the articles in these shopping exclamations and sort the sentences.",0,"After What, a singular count noun needs a or an, even without an adjective. Bargain therefore needs a. Expensive starts with a vowel sound, so it needs an, not a. For example: What a mistake I made!",[],{"items":20,"categories":31},[21,24,26,29],{"text":22,"category":23},"What bargain!","Article error",{"text":25,"category":23},"What a expensive coat!",{"text":27,"category":28},"What a lovely skirt!","Correct exclamation",{"text":30,"category":28},"What an unusual hat!",[28,23],{"id":33,"sentenceTemplate":34,"displayOrder":35,"explanation":36,"blanks":37,"payload":38},"01a0e1ab-da01-741d-96d9-4078458332ab","Check whether a or an belongs in these holiday exclamations.",1,"What takes no a or an before plural nouns or uncountable nouns. Beaches and streets are plural, and weather is uncountable. A vowel sound does not make an possible before weather. For example: What cold water this is!",[],{"items":39,"categories":48},[40,42,44,46],{"text":41,"category":28},"What beautiful beaches!",{"text":43,"category":28},"What warm weather!",{"text":45,"category":23},"What a crowded streets!",{"text":47,"category":23},"What an awful weather!",[23,28],{"id":50,"sentenceTemplate":51,"displayOrder":52,"explanation":53,"blanks":54,"payload":55},"01a0e1ab-da01-7491-96d9-4078465c3e6e","Check the choice of What or How in these exclamations about home life.",2,"What introduces a noun phrase such as a noisy washing machine. How introduces an adjective such as cold or soft. An article plus adjective plus noun cannot follow How in this pattern. For example: What a heavy door this is!",[],{"items":56,"categories":66},[57,60,62,64],{"text":58,"category":59},"How a noisy washing machine!","Wrong choice of What or How",{"text":61,"category":59},"What cold this bedroom is!",{"text":63,"category":28},"How soft this blanket is!",{"text":65,"category":28},"What a tidy desk!",[28,59],{"id":68,"sentenceTemplate":69,"displayOrder":10,"explanation":70,"blanks":71,"payload":72},"01a0e1ab-da01-74f1-96d9-407846d27795","These sentences are intended as exclamations, not questions. Sort them by their word order.","In the taught exclamation pattern, the subject comes before the verb: it is, not is it. With an action verb, use a statement form such as this bus moves, not the question form does this bus move. Those question forms ask for information instead. For example: How easily you solve these problems!",[],{"items":73,"categories":84},[74,77,79,82],{"text":75,"category":76},"How loudly the baby cries!","Correct exclamation order",{"text":78,"category":76},"How small these shoes are!",{"text":80,"category":81},"How late is it!","Question order: needs changing",{"text":83,"category":81},"How slowly does this bus move!",[81,76],"\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_ec3f5122-3931-4e07-ba5d-d4da645b30a4_hero.webp?v=1790492531",{"title":87,"slug":88,"language":89,"level":90},"Exclamations with What and How","exclamations-with-what-and-how","en","A2"]