Question

Choose an answer. Which sentence has pronoun-antecedent agreement?

Question 5 options:

Each girl needs to bring her sleeping bag.


Several boys made his own dinner.


No one can leave their seats yet.


Neither girl wants to wear their dress today.

Answer 1

The right answer is the first option “Each girl needs to bring her sleeping bag.”

Step-by-step explanation:

A pronoun antecedent is a word used before a pronoun that it makes reference to. The word antecedent refers to something that precedes another thing, meaning that it is the word that a pronoun refers back to. It has to agree in number, meaning a singular noun is replaced by a singular pronoun, same with plural. This is why the first option suits with the definition because “each girl” is singular and so does the pronoun “her”

Answer 2

The sentence that has correct pronoun-antecedent agreement is "Each girl needs to bring her sleeping bag."

The antecedent in that sentence is "each girl", which is female and singular, so the pronoun should be (and is) female and singular too, "her".

In the other sentences three sentences, the pronoun and the antecedents do not agree in number (boys-his; no one-their; neither girl-their.)