Farmers sow seeds in spring, harvest in fall.

Meaning: Farmers plant seeds in the spring and collect their crops in the fall.

Choice of Words: Sow is the action of putting seeds in the ground, while harvest is the gathering of crops after they have grown. Spring is the season when plants start to grow, and fall is the season when crops are ready to be harvested.

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Farmers plant seeds in the springtime, and collect them in the autumn.

Meaning: This sentence is similar to the first one, but it uses different words to describe the same thing. It says that farmers plant seeds in the spring and collect them in the fall.

Choice of Words: Farmers are people who grow crops, plant means to put seeds in the ground, seeds are the small things that grow into plants, springtime is the season when it starts to get warmer, collect means to gather something together, and autumn is the season when the leaves change color and fall from the trees.

In the spring, farmers put seeds in the ground, and in the fall, they pick the fruits and vegetables that have grown.

Meaning: This sentence is a bit longer than the other two, but it provides more detail about what farmers do. It says that in the spring, they put seeds in the ground. Then, in the fall, they pick the fruits and vegetables that have grown from those seeds.

Choice of Words: In the spring is the season when it starts to get warmer, farmers are people who grow crops, put means to place something somewhere, seeds are the small things that grow into plants, in the ground means in the soil, and is a word that joins two things together, in the fall is the season when the leaves change color and fall from the trees, pick means to choose something and take it, and fruits and vegetables are the things that we eat that grow on plants.

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