Paraphrasing

What is a paraphrase?

• a restatement of the information in a text

• a persuasive argument about the information in a text

• a genre of storytelling

• an essay about a specific topic

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Choose the correct paraphrase of the following sentence:

During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as three worked in factories.

• In the time of the Industrial Revolution, children as young as three worked in the factories.

• Factories employed children-even three-year-olds-in the Industrial Revolution.

• During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as three worked in factories.

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Paraphrasing, or restating ideas in your own words, helps you check your understanding of what you hear and read.

Read the passage below and decide which sentence best restates the ideas presented:

"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920s."

• Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s.

• Television became popular in the 1950s, but the first televisions were used thirty years earlier.

• Television became popular in the 1920s, and again in the 1950s.

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In ancient times, pigeons were used to carry mail.

• Pigeons were used to carry mail in ancient times.

• Long ago, pigeons delivered the mail.

• Pigeons received the mail in ancient times.

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In general, female birds are less colorful than male birds.

• In general, male birds are more attractive than female birds.

• On the whole, the feathers of the female birds are not as striking as that of their counterpart.

• Generally speaking, female birds are less colorful than male birds.

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A handshake does not mean the same thing around the world.

• A handshake means something different around the world.

• Internationally, a greeting by shaking hands is not the same.

• A handshake does not mean the same thing around the world.

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What is the best synonym for "paraphrase"?

• Restate

• Invent

• Copy

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Dragonflies have six legs, but they can’t walk.

• Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk, and I think that this is odd.

• Dragonflies have six legs.

• Although Dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk at all.

• Even though they have six legs, dragonflies can’t walk.

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Donald’s car is $1.000.000, while mine is only $35.000.

Donald’s car is ……………………… more expensive than my car.

• less

• far

• nowhere near

• not

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Paraphrase the phrase by putting it into your own words: a wonderful aroma

• a terrible stench
• an odor wonderful
• a wonderful aroma
• a pleasant scent

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