Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable option:

      __________ charming person she is!

a)What
b)How
c)That
d)What a

Answer 1

Hint: One must understand the use of exclamatory words and sentences, to be able to solve this question. One must also know the importance and use of determiners.

Complete step by step answer:

The sentence here talks about the female being charming. It is an exclamatory sentence. An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that expresses a strong emotion or excitement. Ex. Oh! I totally forgot. Now, as we also know exclamatory sentences may have words that are used in interrogatory sentences (why, what, how, etc.) in the given sentence, we firstly need a determiner (a, an, the) for the subject, that is “she”. The only determiner that fits the context is “a”. Option a, what, could have been a correct option but it does not have a determiner, hence is incorrect.

 Option b, how, cannot fit in the sentence, as it is irrelevant to the context, it is incorrect as well.

Option c, that, is a pronoun, which cannot be used in this sentence, as there is already a pronoun used for the subject, it is an incorrect choice as well.

 Option d, what a, has the required determiner and the correct word “what” as well, hence, it is the correct option.


Note: one must be very careful while choosing between “what” and “what a”, it can be tricky and one might end up marking the wrong option. One must also know the concept of exclamatory sentences.