Meaning: The water showed the color of the sky above it.
Choice of Words: Reflect means to send back light, sound, or heat. Blue is a color.
Alternative Expressions
The water showed the blue sky that was up above.
Meaning: This sentence is describing how you can see the blue sky in the water. It's like looking in a mirror and seeing your reflection.
Choice of Words:Water is the liquid that we drink, showed means to make something visible, blue is a color, sky is the big space above us, that is a word that connects the two ideas, and up above means in the sky.
The water copied the blue sky that was over it.
Meaning: This sentence is also describing how you can see the blue sky in the water. It's like when you photocopy a document and you get an exact copy.
Choice of Words:Water is the liquid that we drink, copied means to make an exact copy of something, blue is a color, sky is the big space above us, that is a word that connects the two ideas, and over it means above the water.
The water mirrored the blue sky that was hanging above it.
Meaning: This sentence is still describing how you can see the blue sky in the water. It's like when you look in a mirror and you see your reflection.
Choice of Words:Water is the liquid that we drink, mirrored means to reflect something like a mirror, blue is a color, sky is the big space above us, that is a word that connects the two ideas, and hanging above it means above the water.