Meaning: The sentence paints a picture of snowflakes softly falling on a winter landscape.
Choice of Words: Snowflakes are the subject, fell conveys their descent, gently describes their soft landing, and winter land is the setting.
Alternative Expressions
White flakes floated softly down on the icy ground.
Meaning: This sentence also describes the way that snowflakes are falling from the sky onto the ground in the winter. It's like saying, The white snowflakes are moving gently through the air and landing on the icy ground.
Choice of Words:White flakes are another way to describe snowflakes. Floated means to move gently through the air or water. Softly means in a gentle way. Icy ground is the ground that is covered in ice.
The sky was filled with soft, white snow that was falling slowly to the ground.
Meaning: This sentence describes the way that snowflakes are falling from the sky onto the ground in the winter. It's like saying, The sky was completely covered with soft, white snow that was moving slowly downward to the ground.
Choice of Words:The sky is the area above the earth where the sun, moon, and stars are. Was filled means that something was completely covered or occupied by something else. Soft, white snow is a description of the snowflakes. Falling means to move downward from a higher to a lower place. Slowly means at a low speed. To the ground means to the surface of the earth.