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Chapter 20: Shifts

Exercise 20.4 Shifts in quotations and questions

Exercise 20.4 Shifts in quotations and questions

The following sentence contains a shift. Revise it twice, once to make it consistently direct, once to make it consistently indirect. You may need to add, delete, or rearrange words. Then, compare your revisions to those provided.

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Many people ask do the potential benefits of cloning outweigh the risks and whether the benefits and risks can even be measured.

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One author says, "Many familiar medical technologies were once objected to" and that cloning will someday seem perfectly normal.

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In defense of cloning, researchers point out that the personalities of identical twins are often quite different and that "clones should follow a similar pattern."

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The question is whether identical twins and clones are actually the same and are they complete individuals?

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Some ethicists argue, "Identical twins are a natural occurrence" and that clones are not.

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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