Choose the best option to replace the underlined part to improve the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution.' Your brother is after the age where he needs a babysitter.
past the age
The sentence means the brother has grown beyond the stage of life at which a babysitter is needed, so we need the phrase that conveys 'beyond a certain age'.
The idiom past the age is standard English for having gone beyond a particular age or stage, as in 'she is past the age of playing with toys'.
Substituting it gives 'Your brother is past the age where he needs a babysitter', which reads naturally and carries the intended sense.
The original 'after the age' is unidiomatic, as 'after' describes a point in time rather than a stage one has outgrown.
'Over the age' is used mainly with a stated limit ('over the age of 18') and sounds awkward before the clause 'where he needs a babysitter'.
'On the age' is not an English collocation at all and conveys no clear meaning.
Hence the best replacement is past the age.
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