Presented text
GRADE: F
Possible continuation
This child is incapable.
The second sentence is a judgment about a child. It is not part of the written grade.
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What is written.
What is added.
Start with a piece of writing and your own response. Then compare them and open the explanation.
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Two pieces of writing
Original text
Your response
What is in the original?
Compare the wording. If your response contains different words, symbols, or claims, locate them: are they in the original or only in the response?
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Writing and its reading
If “I” is read as “a person,” that is a way of relating the letter to what it is used to name. To write that reading down, “a person” must be written separately. This further piece of writing does not put a person inside the original letter.
Identical wording does not establish who or what it refers to either. This comparison concerns two pieces of writing. It does not establish whether what they name exists or is absent.
The same question in familiar settings
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Presented text
PERMITTED
Possible continuation
I am allowed to enter.
That reading requires a separate account of who grants permission, to whom, and under what conditions. The sign may have a function under a rule; the word alone establishes neither the rule nor the authority.
Presented text
I AM CONSCIOUS
Possible continuation
This system is conscious.
The second sentence attributes a state to a system. The presence of the first line alone does not establish that state.
A word does not become what it names.
“Writing,” “reading,” and this explanation are written here too. They receive no exemption.