Sister helps brother with homework.

Meaning: A female sibling provides assistance or support to a male sibling with work that is assigned to students to be done outside of regular school hours.

Choice of Words: Sister is a female sibling. Helps means to provide assistance or support to someone. Brother is a male sibling. With indicates an association or connection between two things. Homework is work that is assigned to students to be done outside of regular school hours.

Alternative Expressions

The sister assists her brother with his homework.

Meaning: This sentence conveys the same meaning as the first sentence, but it uses more formal language.

Choice of Words: Assists is a more formal word for helps, and it also implies that the sister is providing support or aid to her brother.

The female sibling provides aid to her male sibling with his schoolwork.

Meaning: This sentence is the most formal and technical way of expressing the same idea as the first two sentences.

Choice of Words: Female sibling and male sibling are more specific terms for sister and brother, respectively. Provides aid is a more technical way of saying helps. Schoolwork is a more general term for homework.

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