Please put your toys away after you finish.

Meaning: This is asking someone to keep their toys in a specific place after they are done playing.

Choice of Words: Put means to place something in a particular position or location. Away means to a place that is not near or in sight. Toys are objects for children to play with. Finish means to complete or end something. Together, they ask someone to tidy up their toys after playing.

Alternative Expressions

Clean up your toys when you're done.

Meaning: This means to ask someone to make their toys neat and tidy after they have completed playing with them. It's like saying, After you have finished playing with your toys, please make them neat and tidy.

Choice of Words: Clean up means to make something neat and tidy. Toys are objects that children play with. When means at a specific time. You're is a contraction of the words "you are". Done means to complete a task.

Tidy up your toys after you're finished playing.

Meaning: This means to ask someone to make their toys neat and orderly after they have completed playing with them. It's like saying, When you have finished playing with your toys, please make them neat and orderly.

Choice of Words: Tidy up means to make something neat and orderly. Toys are objects that children play with. After means to do something later in time. You're is a contraction of the words "you are". Finished playing means to have completed playing with something.

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