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We know how expensive we are
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In the Original Poster's example, the subordinate finite clause how expensive we are is syntactically ambiguous and could be either interrogative or exclamative.
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We know how expensive we are
The Cambridge Grammar of the English language p978 has the following in a section titled 'Survey of constructions containing subordinate interrogatives'.
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