What vs How

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What vs How

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Hello Alan,

A friend of mine asked the following question:

"What a charming person she is!
Can I change the sentence into the following one:

How charming a person she is!"

Are both of the sentence grammatically and semantically identical?

Many thanks.
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Re: What vs How

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The rephrased version is grammatical but old-fashioned.

I would recommend the first, at least for conversational usage.
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