Am I glad to see you!
* Am I glad to see you!
It's my first time I've met this expression, but I don't completely understand why "Am" is placed before "I" and thought it would have derived from its interrogative form because it's the rule to place "Am" before a subject when to make a question, but interestingly, there's an answer on Quora that it has nothing to do with the interrogative but just an exclamatory expression.
I think such a structure can be explainable to think in this way that it's permitted to write such that when a speaker wants to emphasize a current situation "Am" but am not sure it'd be a reasonable thinking.
To add, I would like you to bring such examples as many as possible.
Top answer
The given sentence is exclamatory - the exclamation point at the end is required. In such a sentence, the "am" is placed at the beginning, before "I". The speaker here is emphasizing how glad he is to see the listener.
- The given sentence is exclamatory - the exclamation point at the end is required.
- In such a sentence, the "am" is placed at the beginning, before "I".
- The speaker here is emphasizing how glad he is to see the listener.
- In sentences of this form, there is often an exclamatory-type word before "am".
- And there is often an interrogative phrase at the end, turning the sentence into a quasi-rhetorical question.
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The given sentence is exclamatory - the exclamation point at the end is required. In such a sentence, the "am" is placed at the beginning, before "I". The speaker here is emphasizing how glad he is to see the listener. In sentences of this form, there is often an exclamatory-type word before "am". And there is often an interrogative phrase at the end, turning the sentence into a quasi-rhe
0The nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner" uses it:
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating his Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, "What a good boy am I!"
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