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Read the sentence containing a pronoun shift error.

If someone wants to get better grades, you should study every day.

Which sentence corrects the error?


If someone wants to get better grades, it should study every day.

If someone wants to get better grades, he or she should study every day.

If someone wants to get better grades, we should study every day.

If someone wants to get better grades, I should study every day.

User Espinal
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Answer:

he or she

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User Pwyg
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Answer:

if someone wants to get better grades, he or she should study (the second one)

Step-by-step explanation:

because the someone is a he or she, not I or we because the person saying it isn't talking about themselves and saying it just is incorrect

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