Paraphrase & Summarize

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What is the main idea of the following text? What is your favorite way to eat a potato? Potatoes are one of the most versatile foods in the world. You can bake a potato and eat it whole, or you can cut it up and roast it in the oven. Many people boil potatoes and then beat them until they are smooth, creating mashed potatoes that can be covered with gravy. Potatoes can also be fried to form french fries or chips. No one can accuse the potato of being useless!

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Potatoes can be cooked in different ways.

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Paraphrase this: She stayed up very late. She wanted to get her homework finished.

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She stayed up late to complete her homework.

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Paraphrase this phrase: the steamy night

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the hot evening

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Paraphrase this phrase: the difficult assessment

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the challenging test

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What is a summary?

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A summary is a concise representation of the main ideas or points of a text.

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What is a paraphrase?

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A paraphrase is a restatement of text in one's own words.

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Paraphrase this: "The man was eating when he was suppose to be working"

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The man was eating instead of working.