Question

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence at the underlined point.
What a beautiful landscape it was.
A) Was!
B) Was?
C) Was.
D) NO CHANGE

Answer 1

Hint: Punctuation marks used for giving spaces, conversational signs and these signs are helpful for the readers for better clarity and understanding of the written text. For example exclamation marks, question marks, full stops, commas, colon, semicolon etc.

Complete answer:
Now let us analyze the given options:
Option A) Was! – (!) are called exclamation marks and this mark is used to put or give emphasis on something or expresses strong emotion (like happiness, sadness, excitement). Thus, in the sentence, it gives emphasis on the landscape which is very beautiful. Therefore, we will use exclamation signs to express our joy. Thus, this is the correct answer.
Option B) Was? – (?) are called question mark signs. We use question marks if we are asking any question on something or about something. Here, in this sentence, the writer is not asking any question, thus, the use of a question mark will make the sentence grammatically incorrect. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) Was. – (.) full stops are also a punctuation mark. We use full stop if we want to end a sentence. This is the simplest form of punctuation and easy to use. Thus, the use of full stop is not appropriate here in the sentence because the sentence expresses the joy of the landscapes. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) NO CHANGE – this option is a void option or null option because there is a change in the sentence given in the question and the correct answer lies in Option A. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘A’ i.e, What a beautiful landscape it was!

Note: There are a total of 14 punctuation marks and they are:
1) Sentence endings: period, question mark, exclamation point.
2) Comma, colon, and semicolon.
3) Dash and hyphen.
4) Brackets, braces, and parentheses.
5) Apostrophe, quotation marks, and ellipsis.