The girl eats an apple with joy.

Meaning: This sentence describes a young female child consuming an apple while experiencing a positive emotion.

Choice of Words: Girl is a noun referring to a young female child. Eats is a verb describing the act of consuming food. An is an article used before a noun to indicate one of something. Apple is a noun referring to a round fruit typically red or green in color. Joy is a noun referring to a feeling of great pleasure or happiness.

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A joyful girl eats an apple.

Meaning: This sentence means that a happy girl is eating an apple.

Choice of Words: The girl is still the subject of the sentence, but now we have added the adjective joyful to describe her. This tells us that she is a happy girl. The eats is still the verb, and the apple is still the object. However, the with joy has been removed. This means that the girl is simply eating the apple, and we don't know how she is feeling about it.

An apple is eaten by a joyful girl.

Meaning: This sentence means that an apple is being eaten by a happy girl.

Choice of Words: In this sentence, the apple is now the subject of the sentence. This is because the sentence is in the passive voice. The is eaten is the verb, and it is in the passive voice because the apple is receiving the action of being eaten. The by tells us who is doing the action of eating the apple. In this case, it is the joyful girl.

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