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Identify the error in the sentence as a problem in pronoun reference (REF) or pronoun agreement (AGR). Their mess was left for one to clean up.

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Their - REF
was - AGR
User Daniel Lopes
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Their mess was left for one to clean up. There is a problem in pronoun reference. Since there is no reference therefore one does not know who "their" are.

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