Question

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point:
What a beautiful morning?
a) morning!
b) morning.
c) morning,
d) no change

Answer 1

Hint: Punctuation marks are the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating the separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.

Complete answer:
In the given question, the statement has a question mark at the end even though there is no question in the sentence. It is a statement that exclaims wonder at how beautiful the morning is.Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'morning!', uses an exclamation mark at the end. This is an abrupt excited utterance. Therefore, option (a.) is correct as it correctly portrays the speaker’s feelings of exclamation.
Option (b.), ‘morning.', uses a full stop mark. It is a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as this statement has an exclamation that is not represented by a full stop mark.
Option (c.), ‘morning,', uses a comma. This is a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as there is nothing after the comma, and there should be.
Option (d.), ‘NO CHANGE', is incorrect as option (a.) is correct.

Note:
In this question, it would help the student to recall what a sentence is. A sentence is a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language. For example- ‘She is strong and very beautiful, unlike others.’ is a whole declarative sentence.