How!!!!! What!!!!!

In English, exclamatory sentences have a special structure. They begin with an exclamatory word. The word emphasized by a speaker or author is placed after the exclamatory word (except when the emphasized word is the predicate of the sentence, which remains in its usual place after the subject). Many English exclamatory sentences are formed by two main exclamatory words “What” and “How”. The problem arises when trying to decide which of these two words to use:  The trick to this answer is deciding whether you need to use an adjective or an adverb.

I have read many posts and books on this and have found very little—I see that maybe the reason that there is such little information on this is because it can be difficult to try and explain.  Let me know if any of you are interested in hearing my explanation.

Examples:

1.    ___________ (How/What) a lovely garden you have!

2.    __________ (How/What) lovely a garden you have!

Exclamatory wor

Note: The light-blue colored nouns are what are referred to as relative subjects—as I have used them here in my examples.  I will explain more at a later time—I need to get to class.