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I want to know about this two sentence whether both is correct or wrong. If both is correct then where can I use this sentence?

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    Welcome to ELL! "How rude you are!": an exclamation. "How rude are you?": a question. Both sentences are correct, if used in appropriate circumstances.
    – CowperKettle
    Commented Mar 6, 2016 at 11:11

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The first statement is asking a question, "how rude are you?". This is a bit non-sensical as generally the person asking decides how rude the other person is, not the other way around.

The second sentence is correct, although it sounds a bit antiquated. Someone might say "How rude you are", meaning that "you are rude" or possibly even very rude. A better example would be someone saying "How tall you are" - expressing surprise and possibly delight that someone is taller than might be expected (a child, for instance).

A simple declarative sentence would be "you are rude".

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    The one time we might hear "How rude are you?" is when it's asked as a rhetorical question. In that circumstance, though, a native might ask instead, "How rude can you be?" The corresponding exclamation might be, "I can't believe how rude you are!"
    – J.R. ♦
    Commented Mar 6, 2016 at 11:25
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  1. "How rude you are!": an exclamation, equal in meaning to "You are so rude!"
  2. "How rude are you?": a question, meaning "What is the extent of your rudeness?"

Both sentences are correct, provided they are used in appropriate circumstances.

Example from Google Books:

Gregory, how rude you are to give Mr. Lorraine all this trouble! But you never were famous for good manners.

Grammar: the question sentence uses the subject-auxiliary inversion: the auxiliary verb "are" stands before the subject pronoun "you".

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