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Is ” How many lights Hanoi has! ” an exclamation sentence?

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AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgOctober 2022
The statement is emphatic and the grammar also reflects that.

This form of grammar is quite complex and is known as inversion. It would be used much more in British English than American English.

Here, inversion is used to express emotion and excitement. The exclamation mark is naturally used to further emphasise the emotional nature of the speech.

The less complex form of the statement would be ”Hanoi has many lights.” However, it only reports the fact that when looking at Hanoi you see many lights and not the excitement of seeing all those lights in Hanoi.