Exclamatory sentence

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Exclamatory sentence

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Is the exclamatory sentence "How clever of him not to have said such a thing!" be replaceable with "How clever he was not to say such a thing!"?​
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Re: Exclamatory sentence

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Yes, they have the same meaning.
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