Rephrasing

REPHRASING

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1. What is rephrasing?

2. What does it consist of?

3. Why do we use rephrasing?

CONTENTS

4. Different types of rephrasing

5. Tips

6. Vídeo

What is rephrasing?

• Rephrasing or sentence transformation is an exercise that consists on rewriting or restating information in a different way.

• That's to say, you have to express the same meaning but in a different way.

• But be careful! The original meaning must remain the same!

What does it consist of?

• They give us a sentence that we must rewrite including a word or a structure that is also given.

• But the original meaning must be as similar as possible to the original sentence.

example

He is sad. (happy) He is not happy

Why do we use rephrasing?

• We use rephrasing to see how much you know about different grammar or linguistic structures.

different types of rephrasing

1. Change the adjective to its opposite. Ex: He is sad. (happy) He is not happy.

different types of rephrasing

2. Change adverbs to their opposites. Ex: She lives near me. (far away) She doesn't live far away from me.

different types of rephrasing

3. Changing comparative forms Ex: Mary is older than Tom. (as....as) Tom isn't as old as Mary.

different types of rephrasing

4. Verb Tenses Ex: They’ve lived in London for 4 years (ago) They moved to London 4 years ago.

different types of rephrasing

5. Some / Any / Much / Many / Few / Little / Too / Enough Ex: There isn’t much time left. (few) There’s few time left.

different types of rephrasing

6. (would) rather / prefer Ex: I prefer studying English to studying German. (rather) I like studying English rather than studying German.

different types of rephrasing

7. Changing Modal Verbs Ex: Shall we have something to drink? (would) Would you like something to drink?

different types of rephrasing

8. Changing Active/^Passive Sentences Ex: Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. (by) Hamlet was written by Shakespeare.

different types of rephrasing

9. Change a sentence into a conditional Ex: I wasn’t on time because I missed the bus. (if) If I hadn’t missed the bus, I would have been on time.

different types of rephrasing

10. Relative Clauses Ex: There’s the woman. Her daughter is friends with mine. (whose) There’s the woman whose daughter is friends with mine.

different types of rephrasing

11. Reported Speech Ex: What are you doing this evening? (asked) She asked me what I was doing that evening.

different types of rephrasing

12. Linking Words Ex: Although we were exhausted, we finished the race. (in spite of) In spite of being exhausted, we finished the race.

TIPS

• Take it easy

• Read the original sentence carefully

• Identify the word you must include in your sentence and try to find out which structure you must use or which changes you have to make.

• Finally don't forget to check your sentence: -ing endings, 3rd person -s, verb tenses.

• Does the new sentence make sense? Is it grammatically correct?

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remember: practice makes perfect!