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Could you please help me correct these?1 You two are the people who wake up (the) latest.2 Aside from basketball, I don't like anything ./Besides basketball I don't like anything.3 He a little more than doubled his investment.4 She got past the 100 mark. (she made more than 100 points) 5 She dropped the phone from that/so high. 6 He might have hit/may have hit the jackpot.7 Nasty things aren't happening to me today.She put a 2 hour ___ on tv a night for her kids. (cerfew/restirction/limitation)  how would you say it?thank you

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alc24Could you please help me correct these?

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1 You two are the people who wake up (the) latest. It is OK to use the, although if I were writing that sentence, I would say who slept the latest.

2 Aside from basketball, I don't like anything ./Besides basketball I don't like anything. I would use aside for no specific reason other than it sounds better to me.

3 He a little more than doubled his investment. I think this is correct, but I don't like it. I would just say, He more than doubled his investment.

4 She got past the 100 mark. (she made more than 100 points) It's OK, but I would say She went past the 100 mark, or Her score went past the 100 mark.

5 She dropped the phone from that/so high. If you are trying to show someone how high she dropped the phone from, you would hold your hand at that height and say She dropped the phone from so high.

6 He might have hit/may have hit the jackpot. You could use either might or may, but I think if you wanted to indicate that he was likely to have hit the jackpot you would say may. To me, might is the word you would use if you wanted to say that he didn't win the jackpot, as in He might have hit the jackpot if he weren't so unlucky.

7 Nasty things aren't happening to me today. Try this: Nothing nasty is happening to me today.

She put a 2 hour ___ on tv a night for her kids. (cerfew/restirction/limitation) how would you say it? You can't use curfew because that means a time, like Her kids an 11 pm curfew on the weekend. I would say either She put a two [spell out '2'] hour limit on TV [the abbreviation for television is capitalized] per night for her kids, or She restricted her kids to two hours of TV per night.

thank you

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