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Which of the following is an Exclamatory sentence expressing strong surprise?

(a) You were detained!

(b) How wonderful she!

(c) What a surprise that was!

(d) Can you believe you were detained?

This question was previously asked in
TNPSC Group 2 2026 Prelims Question Paper (01-Nov-2026)
The correct answer is

(c)

A true exclamatory sentence is built with ‘What’ or ‘How’ at the front, followed by the exclaimed noun phrase or adjective and then the subject and verb, and it ends with an exclamation mark (‘What a surprise that was!’, ‘How wonderful she is!’).

(c) ‘What a surprise that was!’ follows this pattern exactly — What + a + noun + subject + verb — and the noun ‘surprise’ itself names the strong surprise.

(a) ‘You were detained!’ is a declarative statement with an exclamation mark added; its structure is not exclamatory. (b) ‘How wonderful she!’ has no verb and is ungrammatical (it should be ‘How wonderful she is!’). (d) ‘Can you believe you were detained?’ is an interrogative sentence ending in a question mark.

Only (c) is a correctly formed exclamatory sentence of surprise.

(c) option is correct.

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