Eggs hatch babies.

Meaning: This means that eggs are the means by which baby birds are born. It's like saying, Birds lay eggs that eventually hatch into baby birds.

Choice of Words: Eggs are the oval-shaped objects that birds lay and incubate. Hatch is the action of breaking out of an egg. Babies are the young offspring of birds.

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From eggs, babies come out.

Meaning: This also means that baby birds come out of eggs, but it focuses on the idea that the eggs are the starting point for the baby birds. It's like saying, Baby birds start their life inside eggs, and when they are ready, they break out and come out.

Choice of Words: From means that something comes from another thing. Eggs are the hard-shelled objects that birds lay. Babies are the young of animals, including birds. Come out means to emerge from something. When you put them together, "From eggs, babies come out" describes the process of baby birds emerging from their eggs.

Eggs are where baby birds start.

Meaning: This focuses on the idea that eggs are the beginning of baby birds' lives. It's like saying, Baby birds don't just appear; they start their life inside eggs.

Choice of Words: Eggs are the hard-shelled objects that birds lay. Are means that something is equal to something else. Where means the place or situation in which something exists or happens. Baby birds are the young of birds. Start means to begin something. When you put them together, "Eggs are where baby birds start" describes the eggs as the starting point for baby birds.

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