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NCERT Solutions for Class 5th English Chapter 6 C. Read the following · exclamatory sentences — Let us Learn

Book page 69–70 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.
Read the following: 1. That’s so creative!
Answer

This is an exclamatory sentence. It shows amazement and praise.

Read it aloud the way you would really say it — with your voice going up and stopping short. That is what the exclamation mark (!) is telling you to do.

  • The feeling: amazement or wonder. You say this when someone has made something clever that you did not expect.
  • The clue: the exclamation mark at the end.
  • A short form hiding inside: That’s = That is. You learnt this in part A.

Someone might say exactly this on seeing a water tank shaped like a rooster: That’s so creative!

Q2.
2. He saw a rooster, a tractor, and a giant football, all made of cement!
Answer

This is an exclamatory sentence too. It shows surprise.

Look at what makes it surprising. Three ordinary things — a rooster, a tractor, a football — but all of them made of cement, and all of them sitting on roofs. That is not what anyone expects, so the sentence ends with an exclamation mark.

  • The feeling: surprise, and a little bit of delight.
  • The clue: the exclamation mark. There is no word like “Wow” here — the mark alone does the work.
Notice: The same words with a full stop — “He saw a rooster, a tractor, and a giant football, all made of cement.” — would be a plain statement. One little mark changes a fact into a feeling.
Q3.
3. Hurrah! India has won the match.
Answer

This one shows joy and excitement, and the exclamatory word is “Hurrah”.

  • The feeling: joy, excitement, celebration.
  • The clue: the word Hurrah, and the exclamation mark straight after it.

Look carefully at where the exclamation mark sits. It comes after Hurrah! — not at the end of the whole line. The second part, “India has won the match,” is a plain statement, so it ends with a full stop.

Why: The strong feeling is all packed into that one word Hurrah. Words like this — Wow, Hurrah, Oh, Alas, Bravo — are little bursts of feeling, and each one takes its own exclamation mark.
The rule in one line: An exclamatory sentence expresses a strong emotion. You can spot it by an exclamatory word (Wow, Hurrah, Oh) or by an exclamation mark (!), or both.
Q4.
Can you name any four emotions? ...............................................................................................
Answer

Four emotions are: joy (happiness), sadness, anger and fear.

An emotion is a feeling inside you. Here are eight of them, with the kind of exclamatory sentence each one makes:

EmotionWhat it feels likeAn exclamatory sentence for it
joy / happinesslight and gladHurrah! We have won the match!
sadnessheavy and lowAlas! The little bird is hurt!
angerhot and crossHow dare you break my kite!
fearshaky and afraidOh no! There is a snake in the grass!
surprisecaught unreadyWhat a tank!
amazement / wonderfull of admirationThat’s so creative!
disgustyou want to turn awayYuck! The water smells bad!
excitementyou cannot sit stillWow! The tank is shaped like an aeroplane!

If the blank is a small one, write just four: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise.

Try this: Say “Oh!” four times — once happily, once sadly, once angrily and once in fear. The word never changes, but your voice does. That is what an exclamation mark asks your voice to do.
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