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Which is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?
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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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

• The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage.
• The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
•  The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage.
• The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage.

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Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing
• the entire text told in your own words
• a dumb thing that teachers make you write
• the main ideas and important details of a text

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An objective summary should

• include quotes from the text.
• be brief, accurate, and objective.
• include small details from the text.
• include the reader's opinion of the text.

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" I don't understand" 

• Martyna said I don't understand.
• Martyna said she doesn't understand.
• Martyna said she didn't understand.

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Harry remarked, "I will go to Hogwarts tomorrow."

• Harry remarked that he would go to Hogwarts the next day.

• Harry remarked that he will go to Hogwarts the next day.

• Harry remarked that I would go to Hogwarts the next day.

• Harry remarked that he would go to Hogwarts tomorrow.

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Mother asked John, "Don't smoke too much!"

• Mother asked John to do not smoke too much.

• Mother asked John that not t smoke too much.

• Mother asked John to not smoke too much.

• Mother asked John to smoke too much.

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What do you use when you want to use a passage from the author and put it in your own words?

• summary

• paraphrase

• reported speech

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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

• The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage.
• The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
•  The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage.
• The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage.

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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. Which sentence best restates the ideas in the passage?

"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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