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Read the following direct quotation, and then choose the option that paraphrases it correctly without plagiarizing the source.

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." David Frost, British television journalist


Television is an innovation that allows you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.


David Frost poked fun at the idea of television being a means of allowing people into your home to entertain you whom you would never invite in otherwise.


The British television journalist David Frost thought that the best way to entertain guests was to watch television together.


The thing about television is, it is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home

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Option 2.

It keeps Frost’s ironic point that TV lets people into your home as entertainers whom you wouldn’t invite, while using different wording and structure. Options 1 and 4 stay too close to the original phrasing; option 3 changes the meaning.