[Grammar] wholeheartedly

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Ashiuhto

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Please help me check the following sentences.

1. Numerous students are so absorbed in surfing the Net as to neglect sleep and meals.

2. They wholeheartedly want to surf the message on the social media and consequently can’t concentrate on their studies.
 

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Please help me check the following sentences.

1. Many students are so absorbed in surfing the Net that they neglect sleep and meals.

2. They wholeheartedly want to surf the message on the social media and consequently can’t concentrate on their studies.

"wholeheartedly" is not appropriate there.
 

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2. They bend on surfing teh message on the social media and consequently cna't concentrate on their studies.
 

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2. They bend on surfing teh message on the social media and consequently cna't concentrate on their studies.

That doesn't make any sense either. Do you mean that they are absorbed in social media?
 

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They are addicted to surfing the social media and consequently they cannot concentrate on their studies.
 
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