Sentence types · CEFR B1 · Independent
What a day! How lovely! — English sentence types
What goes with a noun, how goes with an adjective. Neither takes a question mark and neither swaps the verb around.
The shape
What a + noun! · How + adjective!
React out loud like a person, not a report.
In Hindi
what संज्ञा के साथ, how विशेषण के साथ। इनमें न सवाल का निशान लगता है, न शब्द उलटते हैं।
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The mistake to fix first
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
How a beautiful day! | What a beautiful day! With a noun — day — the word is "what", not "how". |
Easy to confuse with
Close enough to be mixed up with this one. Knowing the difference is most of knowing either.
Questions people ask
- What is the what a day! how lovely! used for?
- What goes with a noun, how goes with an adjective. Neither takes a question mark and neither swaps the verb around. In practice: react out loud like a person, not a report.
- How do you form the what a day! how lovely!?
- What a + noun! · How + adjective!.
- What is the most common mistake with the what a day! how lovely!?
- Saying “How a beautiful day!” instead of “What a beautiful day!”. With a noun — day — the word is "what", not "how".
Where what a day! how lovely! fits
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
What a day! How lovely! is a CEFR B1 structure — the independent band — and it belongs to sentence types. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
Reading it is not the same as saying it.
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