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Language Academy

July 2, 2019

New Department for Education instructions to moderators assessing the writing of seven-year-olds has decreed that an exclamation mark will be deemed to have been correctly used only if the child has begun the sentence with ‘How’ or ‘What’ and used “the syntax of an exclamation.”

The guidance on marking this summer’s National Curriculum key stage 2 grammar assessments stipulates that while ‘What a lovely day!’ and ‘How exciting!’ remain permissible: “A sentence that ends in an exclamation mark, but which does not have one of the grammatical patterns shown above is not considered to be creditworthy as an exclamation.”