Rewriting the sentence requires a word change to occur, but the meaning of the original sentence is retained. If so, you can rewrite the sentence above as follows:
"You didn't give away the books? Do you still have them?"
The sentence above completes the sentence presented in the question and rewrites the clause presented above.
In summary, we can say that you can rewrite a sentence by following these steps:
Read the original sentence.
Reread the same sentence until you understand the subject contained in it and the message it conveys.
Pay attention to auxiliary verbs and pronouns, as they can indicate the tense and the form in which the sentence can be rewritten.
Modify the words of the original sentence, but rewrite this sentence keeping its original meaning.
because of the following characteristic: It isn't built from specific rhyme metrics. ... Therefore, the characteristic that makes "Song of Myself" a free verse poem is its lack of rhymes that follow a metric.
