Medicine helps quickly.

Meaning: This means that the medicine is helping the patient to feel better in a short amount of time. The patient is recovering quickly thanks to the medicine.

Choice of Words: Medicine is a substance used to treat or prevent illness. Helps means to make something easier or to be useful. Quickly means in a short amount of time. In this sentence, the medicine is helping the patient to feel better quickly.

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The medicine is fast-acting.

Meaning: This means the same thing as the first sentence, but it uses different words. It's like saying, The medicine will make you feel better quickly.

Choice of Words: The is used to refer to a specific thing. Medicine is anything you take to make you feel better when you're sick or injured. Is is a verb that means to be or to exist. Fast-acting means that the medicine works quickly. When you put them together, "The medicine is fast-acting" means that the medicine you take will make you feel better in a short amount of time.

Take this medicine and you'll feel better soon.

Meaning: This sentence is a little longer than the first two, but it means the same thing. It's like saying, If you take this medicine, you will feel better soon.

Choice of Words: Take means to receive or hold something. This is used to refer to a specific thing. Medicine is anything you take to make you feel better when you're sick or injured. And is used to connect two ideas. You'll is a contraction of the words "you" and "will". Feel means to experience a sensation. Better means to be in a more healthy or comfortable state. Soon means in a short amount of time. When you put them together, "Take this medicine and you'll feel better soon" means that if you take the medicine, you will feel better in a short amount of time.

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