The helpful neighbor mowed the elderly man's lawn.

Meaning: This sentence is describing a person who is willing to help others by cutting the grass of the older man living nearby.

Choice of Words: Helpful means eager or willing to help others. Neighbor means a person living nearby. Mowed means to cut grass or other vegetation with a lawnmower. When we put them together, it means that the person who is willing to help others cut the grass of the older man living nearby.

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The helpful neighbor mowed the elderly man's lawn.

Meaning: This means that a kind person who lives nearby cut the grass for an old person.

Choice of Words: Helpful means someone is kind and willing to do good deeds. Neighbor is someone who lives nearby. Mowed means to cut grass. Elderly means someone who is old. Lawn is the grass that grows in a yard.

The neighbor who was helpful mowed the lawn of the man who was elderly.

Meaning: This means the same thing as the first sentence, but it provides more detail about the neighbor and the man.

Choice of Words: This sentence uses a more specific way to describe the neighbor and the man. Who was helpful tells us that the neighbor is the one who is kind and willing to do good deeds. Who was elderly tells us that the man is the one who is old.

The neighbor helped the elderly man by mowing his lawn.

Meaning: This means the same thing as the first two sentences, but it emphasizes that the neighbor did something kind for the elderly man.

Choice of Words: This sentence uses the word helped to describe what the neighbor did. Helped means to do something for someone that makes their life easier.

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