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Pchuang Posted 20 years ago
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please paraphrase this sentence

the sentence is a part of Patrick Henry's famouse speech "Give me liberty or give me death":

"I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. "

how do you paraphrase the second part?

"i see the issue as important as it is and the issue deserves an open debate"

is it a correct way to paraphrase it?
  

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Pchuang the sentence is a part of Patrick Henry's famouse speech "Give me liberty or give me death": "I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. " how do you paraphrase the second part? "i see the issue as important as it is and the issue deserves an open debate" is it a correct way to paraphrase it?

  • Pchuang the sentence is a part of Patrick Henry's famouse speech "Give me liberty or give me death": "I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.
  • " how do you paraphrase the second part?
  • "i see the issue as important as it is and the issue deserves an open debate" is it a correct way to paraphrase it?
  • Yes!
  • Another way to look at it, is that the speaker is saying that if the subject is very important, then it is equally important that there should be a corresponding freedom to discuss the issue.
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Pchuangthe sentence is a part of Patrick Henry's famouse speech "Give me liberty or give me death":

"I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. "

how do you paraphrase the second part?

"i see the issue as important as it is a
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0 Hello Anon... are you looking for help in paraphrasing this? Taking the first sentence in its entirety and ignoring the second is not the way to paraphrase, but I'm not sure that's actually what you are looking for from us. 0-
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