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False friend: to win money

Looking again at yesterday's graph, a member wrote:

Peter Rabbit and Dune didn’t win* any money in the US.
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You win money in a competition e.g. a lottery.

This is a common false friend for 'earn money' (in your job) or 'make money' (in business).

So in this Task 1, the corrected sentence is:

✅ Peter Rabbit and Dune did not make any money in the UK.

✅ Neither Peter Rabbit nor Dune made any money in the UK.

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