Girl dresses doll in new clothes.

Meaning: The young female child puts new garments on the toy representing a human being.

Choice of Words: Girl is a young female child. Dresses means puts clothes on someone or oneself. Doll is a toy figure representing a human being. In means inside or within. New means recently made, acquired, or experienced. Clothes are garments worn to cover the body.

Alternative Expressions

The girl puts on new clothes for the doll.

Meaning: This sentence also means that a girl is putting new clothes on a doll, but it emphasizes that the clothes are new.

Choice of Words: The girl is the person doing the action. Puts on is the action being done, which means to place something on something else. New describes the clothes as being new. Clothes are the items being put on the doll. For shows that the clothes are being put on for the doll. The doll is the thing receiving the clothes.

A young lady adorns her porcelain companion with garments of recent manufacture.

Meaning: This sentence also means that a girl is putting new clothes on a doll, but it uses more formal and sophisticated language.

Choice of Words: A young lady is a more formal way of saying girl. Adorns is a more formal way of saying dresses. Porcelain companion is a more poetic way of saying doll. Garments of recent manufacture is a more sophisticated way of saying new clothes. With shows that the clothes are being put on the doll.

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