50 Examples of Exclamatory Adverbs

Exclamatory adverbs are a type of relative pronoun that performs an emphatic function, which is the reason they are always written with an accent. This accentuation aids in their identification and differentiation based on their syntactic role. Examples include how much, what, and how.

Exclamatory adverbs typically serve as the headers of direct or indirect exclamatory sentences. They have a close relationship with interrogative adverbs, with some overlap between the two categories. Many grammarians group them together under the term “exclamatory-interrogative adverbs.”

It’s common to mistake exclamatory adverbs for exclamatory adjectives since both are used to convey emphasis and surprise. However, unlike adjectives, which can vary in gender and number, adverbs remain unchanged.

Examples of Exclamatory Adverbs

• How
• How much
• How (also translated from Spanish as what or how)
• Who
• Who is it
• When
• How many
• Why
• Where

Exclamatory adverbs can be used at the beginning of sentences to make exclamations. Below are some examples:

1. How sad I felt that afternoon!
2. How nice the new cashier was!
3. What to say about becoming a first-time dad at 62!
4. How dare you mention her ex-husband at the party!
5. Where could you want me to go with this blizzard?
6. Why do you insist on buying that country house?
7. Who could sleep until this hour?
8. Who wants me to take care of this debt?
9. How was I to know he would leave without paying?
10. What a beautiful sunset we witnessed on the beach!
11. Where do you think the mortgage money came from?
12. How tactless was my boss when announcing the dismissal!
13. How inappropriate his comment was last night!
14. Who knows how much I’ll end up paying for that car!
15. How controlling the managers are!
16. What a good friend Juan Carlos is!
17. How lucky the lottery winner is!
18. Why don’t you stop talking and start studying?
19. Who will win the competition?
20. What bad luck!
21. How envious that woman is!
22. Where are you going?
23. Why don’t you make a decision already!
24. How long ago it was!
25. What a nice day it has turned out to be!
26. How late they have dinner at your house!
27. How naive I was to tell him I would quit the job!
28. Where are you taking us?
29. Where could you be better off than in this house?
30. How much I wish to be on vacation!
31. Where are we going to stop?
32. How much I miss you!
33. How much these students know!
34. What I would have said!
35. What a way to laugh!
36. What madness this movie is!
37. How much it rains!
38. How much I like you!
39. What a mystery!
40. What joy to receive good news!
41. How cold it is in here!
42. How well your children ski!
43. How beautiful your plants look!
44. How could you not call me earlier!
45. What a mess over a joke!
46. How much I’d like to live in London!
47. What an unfair jury verdict!
48. How dishonest that journalist is!
49. What a nice gift they gave me!
50. How much time has passed!

Using exclamatory adverbs can add emphasis and allow you to express your emotions more vividly in writing.