Oranges help boost my immune system.

Meaning: Eating oranges can help strengthen your body's ability to fight off germs and stay healthy.

Choice of Words: Boost means to increase or improve something. Immune system is the body's natural defense against illness.

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Oranges help me stay healthy.

Meaning: This means that oranges have something in them that keeps you from getting sick. It's like saying, Oranges have vitamin C, which helps me fight off germs.

Choice of Words: Help means to provide assistance or support. Stay means to continue in a certain state or place. Healthy means to be in good physical or mental condition. When you put them together, "Oranges help me stay healthy" means that oranges provide something that helps the speaker maintain their health.

Oranges give my body what it needs to fight off germs.

Meaning: This means that oranges have something in them that helps your body stay healthy and fight off sickness. It's like saying, Oranges have vitamin C, which helps my body make white blood cells that fight off germs.

Choice of Words: Give means to provide or supply something. Body means the physical structure of a person or animal. Needs means something that is required or necessary. Fight off means to resist or defend against something. Germs are tiny living things that can make you sick. When you put them together, "Oranges give my body what it needs to fight off germs" means that oranges provide the speaker's body with something that helps it resist getting sick.

Oranges are like little soldiers that protect my body from getting sick.

Meaning: This means that oranges have something in them that helps your body stay healthy and fight off sickness. It's like saying, Oranges have vitamin C, which helps my body make white blood cells that fight off germs.

Choice of Words: Like means to be similar or comparable to something. Soldiers are people who serve in the military and fight to protect their country. Protect means to keep safe from harm or danger. Sick means to be ill or unwell. When you put them together, "Oranges are like little soldiers that protect my body from getting sick" means that oranges are similar to soldiers in the way that they help to keep the speaker's body healthy and free from illness.

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