Meaning: The children were having fun making sandcastles on the beach.
Choice of Words: Giggling children: young people laughing happily. Built sandcastles: made structures out of sand. Beach: a sandy area next to a body of water.
Alternative Expressions
The children giggled as they built sandcastles on the beach.
Meaning: This sentence describes a group of children who are laughing and building sandcastles at the beach.
Choice of Words:The is used to refer to a specific group of children. Giggled is the past tense of giggle, which means to laugh with a light and happy sound. As is used to connect two actions that happen at the same time. Built means to create or put together something, in this case, sandcastles. Sandcastles are structures made of sand, usually built at the beach. On is used to indicate that the sandcastles are being built on the beach. The is used again to refer to the specific beach.
A group of children were building sandcastles on the beach, and they were giggling with delight.
Meaning: This sentence describes a group of children who are building sandcastles on the beach and laughing with delight.
Choice of Words:A is used to refer to a group of children. Group means a number of people or things that are together. Were is the past tense of are, which is used to indicate that the action of building sandcastles happened in the past. Building means to create or put together something, in this case, sandcastles. Sandcastles are structures made of sand, usually built at the beach. On is used to indicate that the sandcastles are being built on the beach. The is used to refer to the specific beach. And is used to connect two sentences or phrases. They is used to refer to the group of children. Were is used again, this time with the present participle giggling, which means to laugh with a light and happy sound. With is used to indicate that the children are giggling because they are delighted. Delight means great pleasure or joy.