Hopefully your prof will have already figured this out, but it doesn’t hurt to be proactive in this situation. This is YOUR intellectual work and a simple rewording of a phrase or two does not change that.

If you wish to go far enough, you could sue the other student; especially if the prof sees it your way.

Good luck!

Anyway, that doesn’t really matter. I did have one idiot in a computer class I took who didn’t know what he doing. He for some reason thought that he would be able to get some advice from me (as well as from the other students in class, he would even root through the trash to pull out work that other students threw away) but the buck stopped with me. Let me tell you he never bothered me again.

If you had your work copy written the other student could be taken to court. I would say something to your teacher just in case your teacher thinks that you two were in collusion together thus causing your teacher to give you a lesser grade than what you deserve.

I really do not like it when people cannot do their own work thinking that they can skate on through college/highschool by taking other people’s ideas.