Knowledge filled their minds.

Meaning: This sentence describes how reading books can increase someone's knowledge and understanding.

Choice of Words: Knowledge is information, understanding, or skill that you gain through experience or education. Filled means to make something full. Their is used to refer to two or more people or things that have already been mentioned. Minds is the part of a person that thinks, feels, and remembers. So, the sentence means that information, understanding, or skill that you gain through experience or education made two or more people or things that have already been mentioned full of the part of a person that thinks, feels, and remembers.

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Their minds were full of knowledge.

Meaning: This means that the people knew a lot of things and were very smart.

Choice of Words: Their minds is where people think and remember things. Were full means to have a lot of something. Knowledge is what you learn and know about the world. When you put them together, "Their minds were full of knowledge" means that people knew a lot of things.

The people knew a lot.

Meaning: This means that the people were very smart and had learned a lot of things.

Choice of Words: The people are the ones who are learning. Knew means to have learned something. A lot means a large amount. When you put them together, "The people knew a lot" means that the people had learned a lot of things.

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