Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is:

• Write the same information

• Explaining something in your own words

• Create new information

Paraphrasing can help you to:

• Study for a test

• Complete an assignment

• Write a new text

The first step in the strategy when paraphrasing is:

• To draw

• To read

• To conclude

The second step when paraphrasing is:

• Recheck

• Restate

• Analyze

One of the next statements is a reason why we paraphrase:

• To know more about the topic

• To demonstrate the comprehension about the text

• To structure the text

For the next original sentence choose the best paraphrase options: My dog ate his food quickly.

• My dog slowly gulped his food.

• As I put the food down for the dog, he googled it up in seconds.

• Tiny, my dog, was so excited to eat his food, that it was gone in one minute.

For the next original sentence choose the best paraphrase sentences: Giraffes like Acacia leaves and hay and they can consume 75 pounds of food a day.

• A giraffe can eat up to 75 pounds of Acacia leaves and hay everyday.

• A giraffe eats a lot of Acacia leaves.

• Giraffes eat 75 pounds of food a day.

For the next original sentence choose the best paraphrase sentence: It was raining today but now it is sunny.

• It is now sunny.

• Although it rained this morning, the sun has come out.

• It has rained today but now it is sunny.

• I rained today.