Question

Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word:
Wow. That is a beautiful car.
A) Wow?
B) Wow!
C) Wow,
D) NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Hint:
- Punctuation marks refer to various symbols which are used to distinguish parts of a sentence.
- An exclamatory sentence expresses a deep emotion or sense of excitement. “I got the tickets to the concert!” for example.

Complete answer:
After interjections or sentences expressing a strong emotion such as surprise, astonishment, or amazement, exclamation marks are used. It can be used to indicate emphasis at the end of an exclamatory sentence.

A punctuation mark that appears at the end of a sentence is known as an exclamation mark. It has the appearance of a vertical line across it:!
They're used to express emotions like excitement, surprise, awe, stressing a point, and so on.

Now let us look at the given options:
Option A. Wow?: This is an incorrect option because question marks are used to raise a query but in the above sentence the person is expressing how beautiful the car is. Therefore, we cannot use question marks.
Option B. Wow!: This is the correct option. When you're really impressed, shocked, or pleased, you say 'wow!' In the above sentence, the person is impressed by the beautiful car. Here, wow is an interjection so the correct punctuation will be wow!
Option C. Wow, : This option is incorrect because commas are used to separate two or more words or clauses. But in the above sentence, the word ‘wow’ is expressing how impressed the speaker is with the car, so we will use wow!
Option D. NO CHANGE: This option is incorrect because we have to use ‘wow!’ in the above sentence instead of Wow. So, there is a change required in the sentence.

Note: Punctuation is a collection of symbols used to distinguish written sentences and parts of sentences, as well as to clarify their meaning. A "punctuation mark" is the name given to each symbol. Exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, quotation marks, and ellipsis are examples of punctuation marks.