Paraphrasing The Question
The first paragraph of the IELTS writing task 1, requires you to paraphrase the question simply. But, then there is a difference between simply putting down the question as it has been given to you and moulding it to make it unique. Paraphrasing is simply re-writing a phrase or sentence so that it has the same meaning, but with different words.
There are different ways by which you can paraphrase the written question.
- Use Synonyms- Synonyms are the words that have same meaning as the given word. For instance, human is the synonym of people. This method simply replaces words with the same meaning in order to produce a new sentence. Example-
My car has broken down.
My vehicle is not working anymore.
Here, I have replaced the words with their synonyms. This is the most common method that is used by students to paraphrase. But while doing so, make sure that you use words with the same meanings and not similar meanings.Similar meanings are not good enough and will lose you marks. For example- Teenagers and young people are similar words but they are still quite different. Teenagers are people of age 13-18, while young people are the ones between 18-30.
2.Change The Word Order – Changing the word order means either adding or subtracting words or change the form of the word. But while doing so, make sure that the grammar of the sentence is not affected badly. Remember that you are being judged on your ability to produce error free sentences in the IELTS test as well as use a range of grammar structures.
Apart from these you can either change active to passive voice or vice versa.