Gaming brings us closer as friends.

Meaning: Our shared passion for gaming strengthens the bond of friendship between us.

Choice of Words: Closer means nearer in space, time, or relationship. Friends are people with whom you have a close relationship of mutual trust and affection.

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Playing video games makes us become better friends.

Meaning: This means that playing video games together can help friends become closer and spend more time together.

Choice of Words: Playing is the present participle of the verb play, which means to engage in an activity for enjoyment or recreation, video means relating to the technology of recording and reproducing moving images and sound on magnetic tape, games are activities that are played for enjoyment, makes means to cause something to happen or exist, become means to come into existence or to start to be, and better means of a more desirable or acceptable kind or quality. When you put them together, "Playing video games makes us become better friends" means that playing video games together helps us to become closer and better friends.

When we play video games together, we become closer friends.

Meaning: This means that playing video games together can help friends become closer and spend more time together.

Choice of Words: When is an adverb that indicates a time or occasion, we is a pronoun that refers to the speaker and one or more other people, play is a verb that means to engage in an activity for enjoyment or recreation, video means relating to the technology of recording and reproducing moving images and sound on magnetic tape, games are activities that are played for enjoyment, together means in the same place or at the same time, and friends are people who know and like each other. When you put them together, "When we play video games together, we become closer friends" means that when we play video games together, we become closer friends.

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