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Reducing a clause to a phrase is one of the important ways of making a paraphrase.

Reducing a clause to a phrase is one of the important ways of making a paraphrase.

Reduce a Clause to a Phrase

Clause? Phrase?

Clause

A group of words with a subject and verb.

eg. I bought new shoes yesterday.

Phrase

A constituent of a sentence which can be replaced by one word. For example,

new shoes (a noun phrase),
very beautiful (adjective phrase)
extremely well (adverb phrase)
indicating (a verb phrase).

All these can be replaced by one word in a sentence (if they are not one word already) without destroying the structure of the sentence.

An example: I bought new shoes yesterday > I bought shoes yesterday

By reducing a clause to a phrase you can change the structure of a sentence quite easily and that is why it is a good paraphrasing technique:

Clause	Lazyness, which is common to many people, may be a result of an unhealthy diet.
Phrase	Lazyness, common to many people, may be a result of an unhealthy diet.
Clause	In their study, they found that horses who were skittish lacked confidence in their owners.
Phrase	In their study, they found that skittish horses lacked confidence in their owners.

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