They shared the cake.

Meaning: This means that someone has divided a sweet food into pieces and given them to other people.

Choice of Words: Shared means to divide something among two or more people. Cake is a sweet food made from flour, sugar, and eggs. "They shared the cake" means that someone divided a sweet food among two or more people.

Alternative Expressions

The children divided the cake.

Meaning: This means that the children cut the cake into slices and gave each child a slice.

Choice of Words: Children refers to a group of young people, divided means to separate something into parts, and cake is a sweet food made from flour, sugar, and eggs. Together, the sentence describes the action of the children separating the cake into pieces.

The friends cut the cake into equal pieces.

Meaning: This means that the friends used a knife to divide the cake into slices that were all the same size.

Choice of Words: Friends refers to a group of people who know and like each other, cut means to divide something into pieces with a sharp object, cake is a sweet food made from flour, sugar, and eggs, and equal means the same size or amount. Together, the sentence describes the action of the friends cutting the cake into pieces of the same size.

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