Pathways to Academic English I-A Practice

Interactive Paraphrasing Practice

Directions:

Change the part of speech of the bolded words.

Change the part of speech means to add or subtract suffixes to, for example, change word from a noun to an adjective.

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Change the voice of the bolded words.

Change the voice means for example, to change a sentence from active (SVO) to passive (OVS) or vice versa.

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Reduce the bold clauses.

Reduce clauses by first finding and removing the relative pronoun (who, what, that, where, etc.), removing unnecessary verbs, and moving words or utilizing commas.

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Replace the bolded word with a synonym.

Make sure to consider the list of synonyms in your Pathways to Academic English textbook!

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Begin by changing the parts of speech of the underlined words

While it is a rarity for orcas to attack humans in the wild, four humans have been killed due to interacting with orcas that were in captivity.

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The first sentence answer should go here.

David Scott, who is an astronaut from America, was accepted into the US Military Academy in 1954, and he became the seventh person to walk on the moon in 1967 thanks to the intense training that he received there.

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Write or copy-and-paste your original sentence here:

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