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Item 3

Read the sentence containing a pronoun shift error.

Joe and Lucy presented his science project to the school.

Which sentence corrects the error?


Joe and Lucy presented her science project to the school.

Joe and Lucy presented their science project to the school.

Joe and Lucy presented your science project to the school.

Joe and Lucy presented its science project to the school.

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the second one because the pronoun “their” refers to multiple people rather than just “him” referring to Joe!
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