To paraphrase is to reword information so that it still says what was said but in a whole different way through your own words.
Example, you go on this really trustworthy website and you plan on just copying and pasting but which is not allowed, that would be plagiarism... Don't plagiarize, instead read the information and take out the main points and reword it.
The voice the beautifies…
Elisa "cries like an old woman" because she is absolutely crushed because she realizes that she has been duped by the tinker and that he was not interested in her chrysanthemums at all. He had only pretended to be interested in Elisa talking about them in order to get some business from her (some pots to mend). What had been an awakening of emotions for Elisa was now a huge disappointment. Elisa realizes that she simply cannot be anyone different from who she is on her little farm with her husband. She is "trapped" there and will never be able to get her husband to see the aesthetic beauty of her flowers that she loves so much.
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After the sixties people's attitudes towards child's adoption gradually became positive. The change in thought was brought by various factors. Traugot has mentioned the black civil right movement, legalization of abortion, change in the attitude of the people, and change in government's policy as responsible factors