Read the sentence from of the wisdom of the ancients. they say then that love was the most ancient of all the gods; the most ancient therefore of all things whatever, except chaos, which is said to have been coeval with him; and chaos is never distinguished by the ancients with divine honour or the name of a god.

The question for the passage given above is this: To correctly paraphrase the passage given above, Tamar should:
A. Copy it is exactly as it is.
B. Restate it in her own words.
C. Copy part of it exactly and restate the rest.
D. Quote it exactly and put quotation marks around it.
The correct option is B.
Paraphrasing refers to the act of presenting the information that one has read in one's own words. In order to be able to paraphrase accurately, one must have a thorough understanding of the subject matter that is involved. In academic writing and other forms of writing, plagiarism is a very serious issue and one must always take care to present information in one's own word in order to avoid copying others' works.