Question

1. revise the following sentence so that the pronoun number accurately reflects the antecedent. the students turned in his work a day late. the student turned in his work a day late. the students turned in somebodys work a day late. the students turned in their work a day late. the students turned in the work a day late.

Explanation:

The original sentence has a pronoun - antecedent agreement error. The antecedent "students" is plural, so we need a plural pronoun to refer to it. "His" is singular, so we need to replace it with a plural possessive pronoun. "Their" is the plural possessive pronoun that correctly refers to "students". Let's analyze each option:

• Option 1: Changes the antecedent from "students" (plural) to "student" (singular) to match the singular pronoun "his", which is not what we want as we need to keep the antecedent "students" and change the pronoun.
• Option 2: Uses "somebody's" which is an indefinite pronoun and does not correctly refer to "students".
• Option 3: Uses "their" (plural possessive pronoun) which correctly refers to the plural antecedent "students", so this corrects the pronoun - antecedent agreement.
• Option 4: Removes the pronoun altogether, but the question asks to revise the sentence so that the pronoun number accurately reflects the antecedent, not to remove the pronoun.

Answer:

C. The students turned in their work a day late. (Note: Assuming the options are labeled A, B, C, D with the third option being C. If the original options have different labels, adjust accordingly. Based on the order in the question, the third option is the correct one.)