The topic was "The Chinese economy--Should we be worried?" He stood up and said (to closely paraphrase), "A month ago, I was worried.
But one can also offer a logical paraphrase that more closely parallels the grammatical division between 'some boy' and 'sang': for some individual x such that x is a boy, x sang.
Before the book's release, the writer Craig Shirley accused Perlstein of closely paraphrasing his own work without attribution.
Before the book's release, the writer Craig Shirley accused Perlstein of closely paraphrasing his own work without attribution.
In 2006, an episode of Battlestar Gallactica featured a character closely paraphrasing Mario Savio's "bodies upon the gears" speech.
(The remainder of this section closely paraphrases McLaughlin 1995).
Augusta, Lady Gregory retold many of the legends of Cú Chulainn in her 1902 book Cuchulain of Muirthemne, which closely paraphrased the originals but glossed over some of the more extreme content.
Since interviews were not tape recorded and many took place in Spanish followed by our translation into English, many of the quotes are not verbatim, but rather represent closely paraphrased and translated passages that are our best attempt at capturing the idea the interviewee was expressing.
If we look more closely, however, we can paraphrase Mark Twain and conclude that reports of populism's death have been greatly exaggerated.
In this lesson, students share favorite sentences, look closely at what makes them great, paraphrase them, then evaluate the results.
Greenberger forgivably tells the same tales as Reeves, but in places "The Unexpected President" closely mimics its antecedent with scant paraphrase and nary a quotation mark.
