Players passed ball to each other.

Meaning: This sentence describes players giving the ball to each other.

Choice of Words: Players means people who take part in a game or sport. Passed means to give or hand something to someone. Ball means a round object used in games and sports. To means with the purpose or intention of. Each means every one of two or more people or things. Other means not the one or ones being referred to.

Alternative Expressions

The players threw the ball between them.

Meaning: This sentence also describes how the players are playing the game. It says that they are throwing the ball back and forth to each other.

Choice of Words: The players are the people who are playing the game. Threw means to send something through the air. The ball is the object that is being thrown. Between shows that the ball is being thrown back and forth. Them refers to the players.

The athletes exchanged the sphere in a back-and-forth manner.

Meaning: This sentence uses more formal language to describe how the players are playing the game. It says that they are passing the ball back and forth to each other.

Choice of Words: The athletes are the people who are playing the game. Exchanged means to give something to someone and receive something in return. The sphere is the ball. In a back-and-forth manner shows that the ball is being passed back and forth.

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