How I love the summer holidays
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How I love the summer holidays!
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/british-grammar/exclamations
I thought in "how exclamation", "how " is followed by an adjective or adverb but I can't see that pattern in the above example "How I love summer holidays!"
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" The exclamation point is there to show that the inversion of subject and verb does not denote a question. Look at the section on the webpage under "Exclamatives with interrogative form". I can't totally agree with Cambridge there.
- " The exclamation point is there to show that the inversion of subject and verb does not denote a question.
- Look at the section on the webpage under "Exclamatives with interrogative form".
- I can't totally agree with Cambridge there.
- It looks like they are trying to limit your use of the exclamation point by allowing it only in certain forms, which is helpful, but they do not warn you that you should not use it at all unless you really need it.
- " is fine.
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In the old days, that would have been "How do I love the summer holidays!" The exclamation point is there to show that the inversion of subject and verb does not denote a question. Look at the section on the webpage under "Exclamatives with interrogative form".
I can't totally agree with Cambridge there. It looks like they are trying to limit your use of the exclamation poi
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