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Question
Read the sentence from the text What a hideous new dress!
This is an exclamation. It can be written as a simple sentence ‘The new dress is very hideous.’
Find out few more exclamatory sentences from the passage and transform them into assertive sentences.
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Solution
1. What a fright she looks!
Ans: She looks like such a fright.
2. How dull!
Ans: It is so dull.
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