Q1.
Find at least five exclamatory sentences from your Grade 4 English textbook and identify the emotions or feelings expressed in them.
Sentence | Feeling/Emotion
That’s so creative! | amazement/wonder
Answer
This one you must do from your own Grade 4 English book, because every school’s book is at hand in the class. Here is exactly how to do it, and a filled table you can use as a model.
How to hunt for exclamatory sentences:
- Step 1. Open your Grade 4 English book and turn the pages slowly.
- Step 2. Your eyes are looking for one mark only — the exclamation mark (!). It is easy to spot at the end of a line.
- Step 3. When you find one, copy the whole sentence into the left column, exactly as it is printed.
- Step 4. Now read the lines just before and just after it. They tell you what was happening — and that tells you the feeling.
- Step 5. Write that feeling in the right column: joy, fear, surprise, anger, sadness, wonder, excitement, relief.
What a good answer needs: five sentences copied word for word from your book, each with its exclamation mark, and a feeling word beside each one. Different feelings are better than the same feeling five times.
Sample answer — a filled table:
| Sentence | Feeling/Emotion |
|---|---|
| That’s so creative! | amazement/wonder (given in the book) |
| Wow! What a beautiful garden! | delight and wonder |
| Hurrah! We have won the match! | joy and excitement |
| Oh no! I have lost my new pencil box! | worry and dismay |
| Alas! The poor bird could not fly! | sadness and pity |
| Look out! The bus is coming! | fear and warning |
How the feeling is decided: The exclamation mark only tells you the feeling is strong. It does not tell you which feeling. For that you need the words themselves and the story around them. “Oh!” beside a lost pencil box is worry; “Oh!” beside a surprise gift is delight.
Word bank for the second column: joy · excitement · surprise · wonder · amazement · relief · pride · anger · fear · worry · sadness · pity · disgust.