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[twcandyman]

Good morning everyone~

I am a student from Taiwan, nice to meet you all

Here's a question that confused me a lot:

I used to see some sentences begin with "What a.." or "What the.." .

But I can't exactly know what they mean, and what is the difference between these to kinds of sentence.

Thanks for your replies, and best wishes to you all~

Thomas, Liao.

[Lorikeet]

It would be better if you could collect some examples.

You might see sentence like:

What a nice car! or What an interesting painting!

I can't think of any regular sentences with "What the" except things like "What the hell are you doing here?" which is not considered polite, and is really just a stronger way of saying, "What are you doing here?"