Question

How is a hll is different from machine language

Answer 1

The only language computer hardware can understand is binary code consisting of 1s and 0s. ... how different hardware elements of a computer actually communicate with each other

Answer 2

High level language uses English words like "for", "if", "the" etc.
HLL is user friendly language anyone can understand it very easily.

However machine language is very difficult to understand for human because it is in 0's and 1's form.