I help my mom with the dishes.

Meaning: This means to assist your mother with washing plates, cups, and other items used for eating.

Choice of Words: Helping is doing something to assist someone else. "Mom" is a word for your mother, and "dishes" are plates, cups, and other items used for eating.

Alternative Expressions

I assist my mother with the plates and bowls.

Meaning: This also means you help your mom clean the dirty plates and bowls after meals, but it's a more formal way of saying it.

Choice of Words: Assist means to help or support someone with a task. Mother refers to the person's mother. Plates and bowls refer to the specific types of dishes used for eating. When you put them together, "I assist my mother with the plates and bowls" means you help your mother clean the dirty plates and bowls.

I lend a hand to my mom with the dirty dishes.

Meaning: This means you help your mom clean the dirty plates, bowls, and utensils after meals by using your hands to wash them.

Choice of Words: Lend means to give something temporarily to someone. Hand refers to your body part that you use to grab and hold things. Dirty means not clean. Dishes refers to the plates, bowls, and utensils used for eating. When you put them together, "I lend a hand to my mom with the dirty dishes" means you help your mother clean the dirty dishes by giving her your hands to use.

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