Objective vs Subjective: Distinguishing a Summary from Personal Opinion Quiz

Confusing' is a subjective adjective that reflects the summarizer's personal difficulty or judgment of the text. Removing it leaves the objective fact: the article was about climate change.

Using the author's name (A) maintains neutrality. Reporting data accurately (C) ensures factuality. Focusing on the main structure (D) prevents getting lost in personal interpretations.

The term Objective means free from personal feelings or bias, relying only on facts and verifiable information from the text.

This is false. The goal is to report the content neutrally. Using strong emotional language introduces bias and defeats the purpose of an objective summary.

By removing the subjective word 'terrible' and reporting the verifiable financial fact neutrally, the sentence becomes objective.

An objective summary must capture the author's final conclusion or main claim, ensuring it is reported without the summarizer's personal commentary.

Essential' is a subjective evaluation of necessity, and 'must' is a strong modal verb showing judgment. These words reflect the summarizer's bias and judgment, not neutral reporting.

Phrases like 'It is obvious that...' or 'Clearly...' often signal a personal conclusion or interpretation (a form of bias/opinion) that the summarizer is presenting as if it were a universal truth.

This is true. The key test for objectivity is the absence of any words that reflect the summarizer's personal preference, judgment, or feeling.

Option B reports the verifiable fact (the vote count and the action) neutrally, without adding any personal judgment like 'unwise,' 'great,' or 'unfair.'

The objective summary must report the facts neutrally without adding any subjective judgment (like 'great idea,' 'unfairly,' or 'should have been passed sooner').

Both 'The text claims' and 'The author states' are objective framing devices that attribute the idea back to the original source, keeping the summary writer's voice neutral.

Words like 'boring' and 'long' (used as a subjective critique) are based on the writer's personal experience and judgment, making the statement subjective (opinion) rather than objective.

This is true. The definition of an objective summary is one that maintains a neutral, unbiased tone, which means avoiding any subjective language.

Sentence B is the only statement that reports the verifiable event (the launch) without adding subjective adjectives ('wonderful'), value judgments ('should have'), or personal evaluations ('too expensive').

Objective summaries are meant to be neutral accounts that simply relay the information from the original source without trying to influence the reader's beliefs or actions.

B uses the subjective adjective 'terrifying.' C uses the explicit opinion clue 'I feel.' Both introduce personal bias, making the summary subjective.

The phrase 'I believe' is an explicit clue that the writer is inserting their own personal thought or conviction, which introduces subjectivity into the summary.

This is false. The word 'best' is a superlative adjective that expresses a personal opinion or subjective evaluation, which introduces bias and makes the summary subjective, not objective.

An objective summary must stick strictly to the verifiable information and ideas presented in the original source, excluding any personal feelings or judgments of the summarizer.