Trees give us oxygen.

Meaning: Large plants with trunks, branches, and leaves transfer a gas that is necessary for life to the people who are speaking or writing.

Choice of Words: Trees are large plants with trunks, branches, and leaves. Give means to transfer something to someone. Us means the people who are speaking or writing. Oxygen is a gas that is necessary for life.

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Trees provide us with oxygen.

Meaning: This means that trees make the air we need to breathe available to us. It's like saying, Trees make the air that we use to live available to us.

Choice of Words: Provide means to make something available to someone or something. With means in the company of or together with someone or something. When you put them together, "Trees provide us with oxygen" means that trees make oxygen available to us.

Oxygen comes from trees.

Meaning: This means that trees make the air we need to breathe. It's like saying, Trees make the air that we use to live.

Choice of Words: Comes means to arrive or be produced from a particular place or source. From means away from a particular place or source. When you put them together, "Oxygen comes from trees" means that oxygen is produced by trees.

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