Exercise strengthens muscles.

Meaning: Doing exercise can help make our muscles stronger and more powerful.

Choice of Words: Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness. Strengthens means to make something stronger. Muscles are the parts of our body that allow us to move.

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Working out makes muscles stronger.

Meaning: This means the same thing as the first sentence, which is that when you do activities that make your body move and work, it helps to make the parts of your body that help you move, like your arms and legs, stronger.

Choice of Words: Working out is another way to say exercise. It means doing activities that make your body move and work. Makes means to cause something to happen. Stronger means to have more strength. Muscles are the parts of your body that help you move. When you put them together, "Working out makes muscles stronger" means that doing activities that make your body move and work helps to make your muscles stronger.

Moving your body helps to make your muscles stronger.

Meaning: This means the same thing as the first two sentences, which is that when you do activities that make your body move and work, it helps to make the parts of your body that help you move, like your arms and legs, stronger.

Choice of Words: Moving means to change your position or location. Your body is the physical part of you that you can see and touch. Helps means to make something easier to do or happen. To make means to cause something to happen. Stronger means to have more strength. Muscles are the parts of your body that help you move. When you put them together, "Moving your body helps to make your muscles stronger" means that when you change the position or location of your body, it helps to make the parts of your body that help you move, like your arms and legs, stronger.

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