Standard English ConventionsMediumPronoun agreement with a plural antecedent
Standard English Conventions practice question
Visitors may throw a pot on the wheel, and ____ pot is fired and posted to them a month later.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. theirCorrect
- B. its
- C. his
- D. there
Answer: A. their
'Visitors' is plural: 'their'.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. its
- 'Its' is for a thing.
- C. his
- 'His' is singular and assumes one man.
- D. there
- 'There' is not a possessive.
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