A. Shanta got the first prize in the drawing competition in her school. She told this to her cousin over telephone. Her cousin said, "Great! What a wonderful job you have done!" Her parents were also very happy to hear the news. They congratulated her and said, "What a surprise!"

Note. When we express joy, happiness and wonder, we use exclamatory sentences with the sign!. e.g. Great! What a wonderful job you have done! Can you find another sentence like this in the passage above?

B. Read the story below:

One day a crow got a piece of meat from the kitchen of a cook. He was very happy and flew away towards the forest with the piece of meat in his mouth. He sat on a branch of a tree to eat the meat. A cunning fox saw the crow with the piece of meat in his mouth. The greedy fox wanted to have that piece of meat from the crow. He came under the tree and started to praise the crow. He said, "What a beautiful bird is sitting on this tree! I never saw any one like him in my life." The crow was happy to hear that. The fox again said, "This beautiful bird can sing very sweetly I believe. Oh, how much I desire to listen to his singing!" The crow felt joy in his heart again. The fox then requested him to sing. The flattered crow opened his mouth to sing. The piece of meat dropped down and the fox picked it up. The crow said, "What a great fool I am!" He also said, "Alas! I have lost the meat."

C. Read the following sentences and notice what they look like:
-What a beautiful bird is sitting on this tree!
-Oh, how much I desire to listen to his singing!
-What a great fool I am!
-Alas! I have lost the meat.

What kind of sentences are these? What kind of feeling or emotion do they express? _____________________

D. Read the passage below:

Andrew came to Bangladesh last year. He wanted to visit a Bangladeshi river. His Bangladeshi pen-friend Nasima suggested seeing the river Bramhaputra in Mymensing, a town not very far from Dhaka. Andrew liked the idea. The journey to Mymensing took four hours from Dhaka. He said to Nasima, "Good heavens! We have reached at last." He went there with some of the local students. Andrew was highly impressed to see the beauty of the river and the two sides. He said "How charming!" They went to the other side of the river to have tea with fresh cow milk. On the way they found a place where the riverside is polluted by the garbage from a food shop. To see this Andrew said, "How can they pollute this place!" Nasima became angry to see this and said, "Curse to the people who are doing this."

Identify the exclamatory sentences in the passage above.

E. More examples of exclamatory sentences for you:

a) Hurrah! We won the series.
b) Good morning!
c) Oh, what misery in store for her!
d) Fie, they don't take care of their old parents!
e) Had I but wings to fly!
f) If I would be a Queen!

Write 5 more sentences like these.

F. Rewrite the following sentences as exclamatory sentences:

a) I wish I would be a King.
b) The garden is very charming.
c) We rejoice that our team won the match.
d) I wish you good morning sir.
e) The place is very dirty.
f) Let curse befall the traitors of the country.
g) This town is very peaceful.
h) I am very desirous to meet you once more.

G. Suppose you are for the first time on the beach of Cox's Bazar. Describe how you express your wonder in exclamatory sentences.