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[luciaC]

1. What does bail out of mean in this sentence? If you bail out of older credit cards, you will reduce the average accont age, which makes up a good portion of your credit score.

Are they correct?
2. Didn't you hear that there was a korean gamer dying from playing non-stop games?
3. Three dollars cheaper aren't too bad.
4. My parents are pleased about my new car.
5. My parents are satisfied with my new car.
6. I am wondering why Costco doesn't carry Shuffles?
7. It will be chearper by then.
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Mimi

[bud]

1. When you bail out of an airplane, you jump from the airplane (hopefully, with a parachute strapped to your back). In short, you are leaving the airplane. As a metaphor, when you bail out of something, you are "leaving" it. To bail out of a credit card is to close the account.

2. Didn't you hear that there was a Korean gamer who died from playing non-stop games?

3. isn't ("dollars" is not the subject - I'm not sure what the subject is, though)

4-7. Very good.

[iitimone7]

luciaC - using the word cheaper means that you are comparing something in the sentence.

examples
My hat was cheaper than your coat.
My textbooks were cheaper than I thought they would be (I expected them to be more).

for your sentence in its present wording is an incomplete sentence. you could say some like...

Three dollars for that book isn't bad. It was cheap! (a bargain)